We offer to our customers sensor design, development and production services. If you are interested in related development work that we can do for you, please let us know what kind of research work and/or study you are interested in. Our experts have very special know-how in the fields of:

• Radar system design, waveform design.
• Digital signal processing, efficient encoding.
• Antenna design, development and evaluation.
• MMIC design and development.
• Automotive volume product development, field and end-of-line test.
• Software quality standards.

Here are some topics of our actual work:

• Automotive Radars.
• Dual mode homeland security Radar sensors and networks of those.
• Radar devices for traffic management purposes.
• Networks of short, medium and long range radars.
• RF waveform design for very short measurement times.
• Interference suppression.
• Long range and short range sensor fusion.
• Multifunctional radar systems for automotive applications.
• Very high sensitivity doppler radars.
• Range Gated Doppler Radars.

We have special and professional equipment available for RF hardware and software design, development, test and production. Along with the sensor technology, smartmicro GmbH has developed sophisticated software technology for end-of-line tests both at end of line of the sensor production and at the end of line of automotive OEMs. All engineering activities, in particular the software development and quality assurance, is compliant to standard development processes used in the automotive sector.

DSP development tool chain.
Full tool chain for DSP schematics design, PCB development and testing.
Software tool chain and special tools for digital signal processing development and efficient encoding.

RF development and measurement technology.
Spectrum Analyzers, signal generators, power meters and other calibrated RF measurement equipment.

Anechoic tunnel / Radar target simulators.
20m absorber tunnel with mm precision positioning system for reference measurements of distance accuracy, velocity accuracy, angle accuracy and absolute sensitivity.
Doppler simulators.
Calibrated Reflectors.

Anechoic chambers.
2.5 x 5m for frequencies 3...80GHz for production and end-of-line test purposes.
2 x 3m for frequencies 3...80GHz for development purposes.
Precision pan-tilt suspensions for very precise antenna characterization.

120m² anechoic laboratory.
For moving and stationary real targets.

Bumper characterization test stand.
For the measurement of the exact behavior of radar units mounted behind the bumper plastic fascia. Very precise antenna distortion behavior characterization. Non- invasive test for all types of cars equipped with radars.

3 test vehicles.
Equipped with ready-to-run suspensions for practical radar testing of all types of functions and applications.

200m² test hall.
For fitting, aligning and calibrating radars on test cars.
Special Equipment, Calibrated Reflectors.

EMC test box.
To prepare frequency approval tests.

Temperature + climatic test chamber.
For long time PC controlled sensor test and qualification.

Precision milling machine.
For radome and housing development.

Vapour phase oven.
For precise soldering of very fine pitch components.

Data logging and visualization tools.
For short and long time testing: DriveRecII.