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AWR1843BOOST: How to receive radar data on the serial port in a custom application?

Part Number: AWR1843BOOST


Hello,

We are working on the development of a custom application to visualize the data obtained from the AWR1843BOOST radar flashed with the Out Of Box Demo. We send the configuration of the CLI commands and receive the Done commands that has been received by the radar. But when we start to get the data from the radar it doesn't match with the information of the Frame Header with the data it should have and also in the TLV's number always comes zero and we can't treat them correctly.

We do not know why it does not work correctly, either because it is not well configured or something else is missing.

Could there be some error in the configuration we send or how we treat the data?

Here are the configuration commands that we send to the radar:
%
sensorStop
flushCfg
dfeDataOutputMode 1
channelCfg 15 7 0
adcCfg 2 1
adcbufCfg -1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
profileCfg 0 77 267 7 57.14 0 0 0 70 1 256 5209 0 0 0 30
chirpCfg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
chirpCfg 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
chirpCfg 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
frameCfg 0 2 2 16 0 100 1 0 0
lowPower 0 0 0
guiMonitor -1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
cfarCfg -1 0 2 8 4 3 0 0 15 1
cfarCfg -1 1 0 4 4 2 3 3 1 15 1
multiObjBeamForming -1 1 1 0.5
clutterRemoval -1 0
calibDcRangeSig -1 0 -5 8 256
extendedMaxVelocity -1 0
lvdsStreamCfg -1 0 0 0 0 0
compRangeBiasAndRxChanPhase 0.0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
measureRangeBiasAndRxChanPhase 0 1.5 0.2
CQRxSatMonitor 0 3 5 5 121 0
CQSigImgMonitor 0 127 4
analogMonitor 0 0
aoaFovCfg -1 -90 90 -90 90
cfarFovCfg -1 0 0 0 8.92
cfarFovCfg -1 1 -1 1.00
calibData 0 0 0 0
sensorStart

And we use the Understanding the Out of Box Demo Data Output to handle the radar data packets.

Thank you very much,

We look forward to hearing from you,

Dani.

  • Hi,

    First, regarding the validity of the configuration. If the demo runs with the Visualizer, it means that the configuration is correct. If it does not run it means that it is not correct.

    Second, if we can confirm that the configuration runs with the AWR1843BOOST and the Visualizer, this means that the issue is with the custom gui you are developing.

    I will provide you a matlab gui that we are using internally. This should be helpful for you to develop your custom gui since it is easier to understand than the Visualizer javascript.

    Thank you

    Cesar