PurpleBox Reference Design for Distributed Radar Architectures

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PurpleBox Distributed Radar Processing Platform Block Diagram

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Supported Devices

Processors and Microcontrollers

S32R Radar Processing

Interfaces

Automotive Ethernet PHYs

Automotive Ethernet Switches

CAN Signal Improvement

Power Management

System Basis Chips

PMICs

RF

Radar Technology

Features

Processing Power

  • Aggregation and central processing of four corner radar sensors at once
  • Produces a high-density surrounding point cloud
  • Optional AI acceleration up to 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) enabling enhanced point clouds
  • Optional NVMe storage facilities for data gathering and playback
  • Full example Radar processing chain:
    • Range, Doppler
    • DDMA
    • Coherent/non-coherent combining
    • OS CFAR
    • Accelerated DoA algorithms such as iterative adaptive approach (IAA)
  • ISO 26262 support by using safety components and architecture

Software Development Environment

  • NXP radar software development kit

Documentation

Quick reference to our documentation types.

2 documents

Design Resources

Software

2 software files

  • Software Development Resources

    PurpleBox Linux BSP

  • Software Development Resources

    PurpleBox Radar Bridge Demo Application

Note: For better experience, software downloads are recommended on desktop.

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