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IWR1843: The effect of ripple in the detection

Part Number: IWR1843

Hello! 

As far as I know, an excesive ripple in the power supply of the IWR1843, as well as in other mmWave radar sensors, can produce errors in the measurement or detecting "ghosts" because of that. The point here, is that I don't know how to calculate the distance or the position where the ghost is placed due to this ripple. I mean, an excesive ripple levels at a certain frequency will cause a "ghost target" to be detected at a certain position, because the ripple is confused by the radar echo. Does anyone know, how can I estimate the position of those ghosts due to the ripple, and the other way (given a ghost at a certain position, how to know which freq. can cause that false detection)? This will be so helpful in order to debug a system and check if there is some power supply issues and where.

Thanks for the help!!

  • Hello Alberto,

    A ripple on the supply of frequency 'F' will most likely cause a false peak in the range FFT or 2D FFT to showup at frequency  'F' itself. That frequency in the FFT can be converted to range just like you do for any other object, based on your chirp slope settings.

    regards,
    vivek