AWR6843AOPEVM: AWR6843AOPEVM mmwave Radar integration on Linux

Avani B Nair

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Hi,

We are working on a project where we are planning to use the AWR6843AOP EVM Single chip mmwave radar sensor.
As an initial test we build the sample application 'overhead_mount_occupancy' in code composer studio and flashed to
the hardware. We successfully tested this using the overhead_vod_visualizer app on windows.
We are planning to demonstrate the same application on our target hardware, which is a Linux environment.
Could you please help us in replicating and testing the same in Linux environment. Currently we have tested this on
windows environment using the mmWave Demo Visualizer app. How can we test it on Linux? Please help.

over 2 years ago

0 Josh Wyatt over 2 years ago

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Dear Avani -

Thanks for the post and welcome to E2E!

Please see Linux version of the mmWave SDK download here: https://www.ti.com/tool/download/MMWAVE-SDK

0 Avani B Nair over 2 years ago in reply to Josh Wyatt

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Thank you, Josh.,

We already have the sdk. But how can we test the application using the 'overhead_vod_visualizer' on Linux?

0 Josh Wyatt over 2 years ago in reply to Avani B Nair

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Avani -

Sorry for the delay in responding - could you elaborate exactly what issues you are having?

0 Avani B Nair over 2 years ago in reply to Josh Wyatt

Prodigy 30 points

Hi Josh,
We have flashed and tested the ''overhead_mount_occupancy' sample application available in mmwave sdk on a host windows machine.
We used the output file 'overhead_vod_visualizer.exe' to visualise the occupancy detection using the radar.
Now we are trying to demonstrate the same application using a Linux host. We are planning to use an embedded hardware running Linux OS.
We will integrate the radar sensor to the hardware using USB interface. How can we visualize a similar screen (as seen on windows with the visualizer app) showing the occupancy detection on Linux?
Could you please help?

0 Josh Wyatt over 2 years ago in reply to Avani B Nair

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Dear Avani -

Here in the doxygen you can see description of how the demo outputs over UART for visualization.

C:/ti/mmwave_sdk_03_05_00_04/packages/ti/demo/xwr68xx/mmw/docs/doxygen/html/index.html

Here is app note on that demo as well: https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tidue95a/tidue95a.pdf

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