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We designed the first neuromorphic neural network consisting of these spiking neural resonators that estimates range and angle from FMCW radar data, evaluated the network on simulated automotive datasets and compared the results with a state-of-the-art pipeline for radar processing. The proposed neuron model significantly reduces the processing latency compared to traditional frequency analysis algorithms, such as the Fourier transformation (FT), which needs to sample and store entire data frames before processing. The evaluations demonstrate that these spiking neural resonators achieve state-of-the-art detection accuracy while emitting spikes simultaneously to processing and transmitting only 0.02% of the data compared to a float-32 FT. 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