Other Parts Discussed in Thread: IWR6843ISK, IWR6843
Hello, I'm having issues when capturing data with the DCA1000EVM and the IWR6843ISK. I need to take measurements with these devices and then save them to a MATLAB file. However, it's quite tedious because sometimes, when exporting it to MATLAB, the data gets "corrupted" and shows this response:
Let me describe the procedure I am following, first of all, configuring the DCA100EVM and capturing the data, with the commands below:
[16:07:01] [RadarAPI]: ar1.PowerOff()[16:07:01] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:02] [RadarAPI]: Opening Gpio Control Port()[16:07:02] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:02] [RadarAPI]: ar1.Disconnect()[16:07:02] [RadarAPI]: ar1.Calling_ATE_DisconnectTarget()[16:07:02] [RadarAPI]: ar1.Calling_IsConnected()[16:07:02] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SaveSettings('C:\Users\Usuario\AppData\Roaming\RSTD\ar1gui.ini')[16:07:03] [RadarAPI]: Opening Board Control Port()[16:07:03] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: ar1.FullReset()[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: Closing Board Control Port()[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: Closing Gpio Control Port()[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SOPControl(2)[16:07:04] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:05] [RadarAPI]: ar1.Connect(10,115200,1000)[16:07:06] [RadarAPI]: ar1.Calling_IsConnected()[16:07:08] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SelectChipVersion("IWR6843")[16:07:08] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:08] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SelectChipVersion("IWR6843")[16:07:08] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:07:08] Device Status : IWR6843/QM/SOP:2/ES:2[16:07:08] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SaveSettings('C:\Users\Usuario\AppData\Roaming\RSTD\ar1gui.ini')[16:07:09] [RadarAPI]: ar1.DownloadBSSFw("C:\\ti\\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\\mmWaveStudio\\Scripts\\..\\..\\rf_eval_firmware\\radarss\\xwr68xx_radarss.bin")[16:07:10] [RadarAPI]: Downloading BSS ROM RPRC Binary..[16:07:57] [RadarAPI]: ar1.GetBSSFwVersion()[16:07:57] [RadarAPI]: BSSFwVersion:(06.02.01.05 (09/03/20))[16:08:44] [RadarAPI]: ar1.DownloadMSSFw("C:\\ti\\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\\mmWaveStudio\\Scripts\\..\\..\\rf_eval_firmware\\masterss\\xwr68xx_masterss.bin")[16:08:45] [RadarAPI]: Downloading MSS RPRC Binary..[16:09:03] [RadarAPI]: ar1.GetMSSFwVersion()[16:09:03] [RadarAPI]: MSSFwVersion:(02.00.00.03 (27/08/19))[16:09:24] MSS power up done async event received![16:09:24] [RadarAPI]: ar1.PowerOn(0, 1000, 0, 0)[16:09:24] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SelectChipVersion("IWR6843")[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SelectChipVersion("IWR6843")[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:27] Device Status : IWR6843/QM/SOP:2/ES:2[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: ar1.RfEnable()[16:09:27] BSS power up done async event received![16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: ar1.GetMSSFwVersion()[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: MSSFwVersion:(02.00.00.03 (27/08/19))[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: ar1.GetCaptureCardDllVersion()[16:09:27] [RadarAPI]: Sending dll_version command to DCA1000[16:09:28] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:28] DLL Version : 1.0[16:09:28] [RadarAPI]: ar1.SelectCaptureDevice("DCA1000")[16:09:28] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:28] [RadarAPI]: ar1.GetBSSFwVersion()[16:09:28] [RadarAPI]: BSSFwVersion:(06.02.01.05 (09/03/20))[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]: ar1.CaptureCardConfig_ResetFPGA()[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]: ar1.CaptureCardConfig_Mode(1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 30)[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]: ar1.CaptureCardConfig_PacketDelay(25)[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]: Sending reset_fpga command to DCA1000[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:29] Reset FPGA command : Success[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]: Sending fpga command to DCA1000[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:29] FPGA Configuration command : Success[16:09:29] [RadarAPI]: Sending record command to DCA1000[16:09:30] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:30] Configure Record command : Success[16:09:30] [RadarAPI]: Sending fpga_version command to DCA1000[16:09:30] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:30][16:09:30] FPGA Version : 2.9 [Record][16:09:30][16:09:39] [RadarAPI]: ar1.ChanNAdcConfig(1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0)[16:09:39] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:40] [RadarAPI]: ar1.LPModConfig(0, 0)[16:09:40] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:40] [RadarAPI]: ar1.RfInit()[16:09:40] RF Init async event received![16:09:40] [RadarAPI]: Time stamp, Temperture: 13332,50; APLL Status, Update: 1, 0; SynthVCO1 Status, Update: 1, 1; SynthVCO2 Status, Update: 1, 1; LODist Status, Update: 1, 1; RxADCDC Status, Update: 1, 1; HPFcutoff Status, Update: 1, 1; LPFcutoff Status, Update: 1, 1; PeakDetector Status, Update: 1, 1; TxPower Status, Update: 1, 1; RxGain Status, Update: 1, 1; TxPhase Status, Update: 1, 1; RxIQMM Status, Update: 1, 1;[16:09:40] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:42] [RadarAPI]: ar1.DataPathConfig(513, 1216644097, 0)[16:09:42] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:43] [RadarAPI]: ar1.LvdsClkConfig(1, 1)[16:09:43] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:44] [RadarAPI]: ar1.LVDSLaneConfig(0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)[16:09:44] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:48] [RadarAPI]: ar1.ProfileConfig(0, 60, 3,23, 0, 102,47, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 39,034, 0, 1024, 10000, 0, 131072, 30)[16:09:48] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:49] [RadarAPI]: ar1.ChirpConfig(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)[16:09:49] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:50] Test Source Already Disabled...!!![16:09:50] [RadarAPI]: ar1.DisableTestSource(0)[16:09:50] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:50] [RadarAPI]: ar1.FrameConfig(0, 0, 100, 128, 13,83, 0, 0, 1)[16:09:50] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:51] [RadarAPI]: ar1.CaptureCardConfig_StartRecord("C:\\ti\\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\\mmWaveStudio\\Scripts\\..\\PostProc\\adc_data.bin", 1)[16:09:51] [RadarAPI]: Sending start_record command to DCA1000[16:09:52] [RadarAPI]: ar1.StartFrame()[16:09:52] [RadarAPI]: Status: Passed[16:09:52] Frame start async event received![16:09:52] Time Unit report async event received![16:09:53] Frame End async event received![16:09:53] [RadarAPI]: Frame Ended[16:09:57] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:57] Start Record command : Success[16:09:57][16:09:57] Record is completed[16:09:57][16:09:57] Record stop is done successfully[16:09:57] [RadarAPI]:[16:09:57] [RadarAPI]: ar1.StartMatlabPostProc("C:\\ti\\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\\mmWaveStudio\\Scripts\\..\\PostProc\\adc_data.bin")[16:09:57] [RadarAPI]: No of files Captured: 1, Total no of frames for each device : 100
Then I am using a matlab code to call rawDataReader.m function
radarCubeDataFileName = "random_name"ToSaveFolder="any_folder path";setupJsonFileName = "C:\ti\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\mmWaveStudio\JSONSampleFiles\68xx\1024_config.setup.json";rawDataFileName = "C:\ti\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\mmWaveStudio\PostProc\adc_data.bin";ToSaveFolderAndFileName = strcat(ToSaveFolder,'\',radarCubeDataFileName);rawDataReader(setupJsonFileName, rawDataFileName, ToSaveFolderAndFileName, 0);After the procces I am getting again the noisy response in Matlab, this happen sometimes without a clear pattern so I cannot identify where is the problem.
