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Radar Market Outlook Mats Carlsson CTO Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 1

Why radar? • Competing non-contact technologies – Vision / cameras • Time of flight • Stereoscopic – Lasers – Ultrasound • Radar offers robust and cost efficient monitoring of distance and/or speed – Does not require a clear field of view or line of sight – Robust and accurate measurement results – New highly integrated solutions reduces cost Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 2

Radar Market Outlook • The radar market is expected to grow in the coming years • Many new use cases and applications drives the growth – Internet of Things – Smart homes, cities, factories • Trends / technologies – Packaged components – Ever higher levels of integration – SRD and ISM regulations allow for use of radar in many applications, and trend is to loosen regulations Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 3

Example of radar use cases Various surveillance applications • Larger acceptance due to less integrity problems compared with camera surveillance – Does not require light or clear view – Industrial Level gauging • Distance control, industrial, automotive • Traffic Monitoring • Agriculture, e.g. lettuce harvesting • Environmental monitoring • Robots (industrial and commercial) • Smart homes • Temperature control • Smart-lighting • Door-openers • Ground measurements (including height) for drones • Truck safety • Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 4

Opportunities and challenges • Opportunities – Increasing demand for sensor solutions – Higher integration level offers lower cost and smaller form factor • Challenges – Fragmented market with many small volume customers • Want custom products, but don’t want to pay NRE for customization – Limited radar know-how on the market Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 5

24GHz Radar Market • ISM Band • Large, potential, untapped market • Most popular requested frequency from customer leads • Existing competitors miss the mark on certain points – FMCW is missing in some kits, e.g. in the kit from Infineon – Limited antenna flexibility – Not designed for customization (strictly chip evaluation) – Price is high Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 6

EVK02401/00 Concept Takes advantage of low-cost • Infineon chips and ARM MCUs Simplify development cost and • time for customers Create reference platform that • meets needs of most customer requests Reduce complexity, but fill gaps • found in other radar sensors / kits – FMCW supported – Internal/external antenna – Reference platform for custom products – Suitable for advanced and basic users Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 7

Next generation radar products and technology – advanced information • Sivers IMA is currently architecting a new highly integrated mm-wave based radar solution for imaging applications – Targeting to operate in the 60GHz license free band • Higher integration level reduces cost – Integrated ADC – Beamforming and on chip signal processing – Antennas are tightly designed with the Transceiver chip • Customers could influence the specifications of the Sivers IMA 60GHz radar solution • Sivers IMA´s telecom beamforming and mm-wave design expertise is utilized Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 8

Sivers IMA Technology and Market Differentiators • Technology focus – Mm-wave RFIC development – Beam forming – Patch antenna • Market differentiators – High performance with 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS technology – Robust designs suitable for infrastructure equipment – High integration level – Multi-channel RX and TX for beamforming – RFIC and patch antennas are co-developed Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 9

What is mm-wave and what is it used for? • Mm-wave frequencies are defined as the frequencies between 30-300GHz – Often 28GHz for 5G applications is included in mm-wave • 28 and 39GHz are considered for 5G applications • 57-71 GHz, is often referred to as V-band – License free in many regions – Telecom and radar applications • 71-76, 81-86, 76-77, 77-81 GHz, is often referred to as E- band – Widely used in telecom equipment (data links) – Automotive radar applications • Short wavelength enables small antennas with focused beams Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 10

Beam Forming Phase and amplitude of the • transmitted/received energy is controlled, focus can be achieved in certain directions Enables higher sensitivity and • effective output power Benefits in telecom • – Improved range – Point to multipoint applications can be supported – Self aligning links – Requirement in the 802.11ad standard Very useful for imaging radar • solutions – Higher resolution and accuracy Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 11

Patch Antennas • Low cost • Small form factor • Easy to customize with low tooling cost (new PCB design, no hard tooling) • Proven in automotive radar applications Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 12

Sivers IMA WiGig solution for infrastructure equipment Beamforming Transceiver with 16 • RX + 16 TX channels VCC VDDIO CLK MODE[1:0] Rst GPIO[7:0] – +/-45 degrees Azimuth coverage MOSI Temp Cali- Register MISO ADC LDO Control SPI SCLK detect bration map CSN – Excellent EVM RF GAIN – EIRP = +43dBm AGC RF_IN1 F BB GAIN IEEE 802.11ad compliant covering • RF_IN2 F RX_BBI 57-66GHz RX_BBQ – Data rate 4.62Gbps with 16QAM RF_IN16 F modulation Synth REF_CLK 0/90 x3 VCO_OUT Easy integration with the • VCO_IN RF_OUT1 F Rapidwave digital Modem from RF_OUT2 F TX_BBI IDT (RWM6050) over analog IQ TX_BBQ interface RF_OUT16 F Design in SiGe BiCMOS packaged • TRX BF/01 in an e-WLB package – Currently geared for infrastructure applications Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 13

Key features of Sivers IMA WiGig solution Focus on system cost and integration level • Few voltage domains – • 3.3V and integrated LDO:s for the analog blocks • 1.8V digital i/o supply voltage to fit with BWT i/o voltage (no external level shifters) Baseband interface without external components – Robust performance • Against interferers – Excellent EVM – Autonomous and fast settling AGC – Low group delay variation – Autonomous calibration • IQ calibration (with support from baseband) – DC offset – LO leakage – BIST and ATE support • Wide band solution • Covers the entire 802.11ad band (57-66GHz) and the extended band (66-71GHz) – Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 14

Draft architecture of Sivers IMA´s 60GHz radar imaging solution Sivers IMA´s WiGig RFIC is • used as starting point Digital beamforming RX • architecture for flexible signal processing VCC VDDIO Rst MOSI Temp Cali- Register Beam- MISO High integration level for low SPI ADC LDO • SCLK detect bration map book CSN PA_1 cost Ref Clk Synth F PA_2 Chirp F Cm resolution possible • Control LNA_1 ADC Advanced product • Serializer LNA_2 Data ADC information, i.e. changes Data DSP/ FFT might be applied LNA_6 ADC Tentative schedule: ES in • 2H 2018 Lead customers can influence • the architecture Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 15

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