AWR1443BOOST: matlab connection

Hi,

Are you trying to stream the detected point cloud to matlab?

Thank you

Cesar

Hi Cesar,

exactly.

Additionally I also need to change the configuration to what the radar shows me.

The idea is to scan the environment and differentiate between stairs, ramps and flat surfaces.

Below you will find my matlab code I implemented until now. The port variable depends on your setted COM-connection to the data port of the device.

clear all
close all
clc

%% Instrument Connection
port = 'COM7'
% Find a serial port object.
obj1 = instrfind('Type', 'serial', 'Port', port, 'Tag', '');

% Create the serial port object if it does not exist
% otherwise use the object that was found.
if isempty(obj1)
    obj1 = serial(port);
else
    fclose(obj1);
    obj1 = obj1(1);
end

% Connect to instrument object, obj1.
fopen(obj1)
data2 = fread(obj1, 30)

% A dialog to stop the loop
% MessageBox = msgbox( 'Stop DataStream Client', 'AWR1443Boost DataStream' );
% while ishandle( MessageBox )
%     drawnow;
%     var(j) = fscanf(obj1);
%     j = j+1;
% end

Thank you,

Max

Hi Cesar,

thank you for the reply.

I am downloading the toolbox as I write.

Greetings,

Max

Hi Cesar,

as you suggested I download the toolbox and got already some insights.

The issue is, that when I follow the tutorial for the Lab0016 in Code Composter Studio and try to flash the board with the binary files I get the following error:

Header of C:/ti/mmwave_industrial_toolbox_3_2_0/labs/lab0016_zone_occ_14xx/prebuilt_binaries/xwr12xx_xwr14xx_radarss.bin file indicates it is not a valid file to flash to AWR1443: 0xb55a03d1L

The board is automatically selected by UNIFLASH and also the UART port is the correct one (UART COM6 and DATA COM7).

What can I do?

I red this thread but I do not how to set the "metaImage".

Thank you,

Max

Can you please try to flash the 14xx mmwave sdk demo binary provided here instead

C:\ti\mmwave_sdk_02_01_00_04\packages\ti\demo\xwr14xx\mmw\xwr14xx_mmw_demo.bin

Thank you

Cesar

I already did and its working

Thank you,
Max

The problem is that only the demo seems to flash successfully.

Hi,

After you flash the demo, are you able to run the gui?

This demo is supported by a different team. Let me know if there are additional issues and I will re-assign this thread

Thank you

Cesar

Hi,
what precisely do you mean by gui?
I am able to run the demo on the mmWave Demo Visualizer and see the data.

Thank you,

Max