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Research Project SUCCESS

9 Partners are aiming for SUCCESS

Silicon-based Ultra-Compact Cost-Efficient System Design for mm-Wave Sensors -
the main objective of the SUCCESS project is to develop a technology platform and best-practice design methods to enable the breakthrough of silicon mm-Wave sensors for high-volume applications.

Silicon technology (both CMOS and SiGe) has made tremendous progress towards ever higher device cut-off frequencies. Nowadays all RF components for mm-Wave sensing applications up to 120 GHz can be realized in advanced SiGe BiCMOS technology or even in nano-scale CMOS.

Monolithic integration of the digital baseband processor, data converters, and mm-Wave circuitry on the same chip enables the fabrication of the complete mm-wave sensor electronics at cost of well below one Euro.

Furthermore mm-wavelengths radio waves result in mm-size antennas and even antenna arrays become small enough to be integrated in the IC package. Hence complete miniaturized mm-Wave sensor systems can be realized using a System-in-Package approach (mm-Wave SiP). Possible applications are:

distance sensing applications such as industrial sensing (distance, speed, material characterisation),
public and private safety (motion detectors, even behind wall paper),
automotive (wheel suspension measurement, pedestrian safety),
replacement of cheap ultra-sonic sensors (distance measurement)

Learn more about the SUCCESS project at www.success-project.eu

To address these objectives SUCCESS brings together companies and excellent academic institutions, which cover all steps of the electronic system development chain.

This includes semiconductor technology providers (ST Micro, IHP), fab-less design houses for mm-Wave design (Silicon Radar) as well as digital design (Evatronix), assembly and packaging companies (Selmic, Hightec), a system developer (Bosch), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT-U) and the University of Toronto (UoT).

The project is supported by a grant from the European Commission in 7th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration.