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IWR6843AOPEVM: How to disable Rx antennes

Part Number: IWR6843AOPEVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: IWR1443

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to create a profile simaliar to that is been used in production for my company, they use the IWR1443.

one of the configurations is that there are only 2 RX antennes active.

but when i try to do that i get constant erros without explanation.

currently this profile works, but when i set the channelCfg from 15 to 12 it dosn't work

% ***************************************************************
% Created for SDK ver:03.06
% Created using Visualizer ver:3.6.0.0
% Frequency:60
% Platform:xWR68xx_AOP
% Scene Classifier:best_range_res
% Azimuth Resolution(deg):60 + 60
% Range Resolution(m):0.039
% Maximum unambiguous Range(m):11.99
% Maximum Radial Velocity(m/s):0.23
% Radial velocity resolution(m/s):0.03
% Frame Duration(msec):1000
% RF calibration data:None
% ***************************************************************
sensorStop
flushCfg
dfeDataOutputMode 1
channelCfg 15 1 0
adcCfg 2 1
adcbufCfg -1 0 1 1 1
profileCfg 0 60 10 7 120.1 0 0 30 1 256 3750 0 0 30
chirpCfg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
frameCfg 0 0 16 0 60 1 0
lowPower 0 0
guiMonitor -1 1 0 0 0 0 1
cfarCfg -1 0 2 8 4 3 0 15 1
cfarCfg -1 1 0 4 2 3 1 15 1
multiObjBeamForming -1 1 0.5
clutterRemoval -1 0
calibDcRangeSig -1 0 -5 8 256
extendedMaxVelocity -1 0
lvdsStreamCfg -1 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
measureRangeBiasAndRxChanPhase 0 1.5 0.2
CQRxSatMonitor 0 3 19 125 1
CQSigImgMonitor 0 127 6
analogMonitor 0 0
aoaFovCfg -1 -90 90 -90 90
cfarFovCfg -1 0 0 12.00
cfarFovCfg -1 1 -0.23 0.23
calibData 0 0 0
sensorStart

any idea what i do wrong?

Johan Verburg de Carvalho

  • Hello Johan.

    This is an application level error that often happens during the parsing of the configuration.  If you look at the mmwdemo_rfparser.c file in the demo, you can find where the numRxAntennas is being checked.  You can modify this to accept the configuration you are trying to use, but it may not be compatible with all demos.  Here is an e2e that deals with a similar issue and how to resolve it on the Out of Box demo.

    Sincerely,

    Santosh