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AWR2243: Cascade Calibration the Bias's temperature choose and the data compensated, the Phase shift

Part Number: AWR2243

Hi Experts,

According to an application note "Cascade Coherency and Phase Shifter Calibration" www.ti.com/lit/spracv2, it says below.

Q1). The user how to design the range of temperature for one Bias(such as High Bias)? This there some Important aspects for design the range of temperature to be notice?

Q2). As the note ''allowing a small overlap for transitions'', how long the overlap for transitions is allowed and how to choose the temperatures for the transitions' front and end?  

Q3). what's the "transition temperature" means, is it mean the temperature such as  10°C in Low Bias,  0°C and 50°C in Mid Bias, 40°C in High Bias?

Q4). It's maybe the same logic behind the problem as Q2, the application recommended the transitions temperature as close as possible to the factory, how to determining this transitions temperature?

Q5). If the die's temperature from -10°C to 0°C to 10°C to 20°C, when the host transition the Bias, at 0°C (one temperature for Mid Bias) or 10°C (one temperature for Low Bias)? What's more if the temperature from 20°C to 10°C to 0°C to -10°C.

Q6). As the application note use the imbalance Data to be compensated by DSP, which date should be compensated the raw date from ADC or the data after 1dfft or after 2dfft or other?

Q7). Where the residual imbalance mainly come from is it cause by the present temperature different from the factory temperature?

Q8). How can the user obtain this temperature correction LUT, is it obtain from the API after the Phase shift calibration in the RF Init at factory?

Q9). If the user set the Phase Shift: [0, 5, 11, ... , 356] degrees, but the measured [0, 5.623, 11.25, ... , 354.346], how to set the Phase Shift to make the right phase.

  • Hello Bryan,

    Thankyou for reaching out to us. 

    Please give us some time to understand your concerns and prepare for a response.

    I should be able to get back by early next week on this.

    Thankyou for your patience. 

    Regards,

    Ishita

  • Hello Bryan,

    I am extremely sorry for the delay. I will prioritize your concerns and get back to you on this tomorrow. 

    Regards,

    Ishita 

  • Hello Bryan,

    Please find my comments below: 

    1. I'm not sure if I got your question right. Are you interested in knowing how to set the limits for temperature bins? The customer usually fixes the temperature ranges corresponding to Low Bias, Mid Bias, and High Bias settings based on the sensor’s expected in-field temperature range. In case the device is used for entire band of say -40C to 140C, one example of bin settings could be as provided in Table 3-1 of the document. But if for example say, the device operates only within a temp range of 0 to 80C, the low, mid, high bias bins would be set according to that. 

    2. Overlap between bins can be allowed for greater flexibility within transitions keeping in mind the temperature from which device is transitioning. Lets say the Low_Bias max temp is 10C and Mid_Bias min temperature is 0C, thereby allowing a 10 degree overlap. Now if the device is coming from low temperature, you would want to keep the bias to Low, but if its coming from High temperature, the bias setting should be Mid. Hence, it ultimately depends on the sensor's expected in-field temperature. 

    3. Transition temperatures basically refers to the temperature when the device is moving from one bias setting to another. So in the above example, 0-10C was the transition temperature. But it is usually recommended to keep these transitions near the factory calibration temperatures Say in the factory you're working in 10-40C range, then it is would be good if the low/mid/high bias bina are set as according to Table 3-1. 

    4. On how to determine the transition temperature, it again depends on the sensor's expected in-field temperature. The low, mid or high bias settings are appropriately chosen by the customer based on their usecase and the factory calibration temperature. 

    5. I didn't quite get this question, but I believe this is similar to what I answered in Q2.

    Hope this gets you started. 

    Will answer the rest of the questions in my next reply.

    Regards,

    Ishita