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AWR2243: AWR2243: Phase Shifter Calibration

Part Number: AWR2243

Hello,

I would like to ask, when we cascade the AWR2243 chips, we use a phase shifter. When calibrating the phase shifter, we refer to the article "Cascade Coherency and Phase Sifter Calibration Application Note". We plan to use the angle inversion for phase shifting. Calibration, calling the AWR PHASE SHIFTER CAL DATA RESTORE SB interface, when we use this interface, we encountered the following problems:

1. I want to ask about the order of bite[0] and bite[1]. For example, I now have a number 258, and its binary value is 100000002. Then I should store 00000001 in byte 1 and 00000002 in byte 0. , or store 00000002 in byte 1 and store 00000001 in byte 0?

2. When using angle inversion to collect data, do the possible phase shift values ​​(multiples of 5.625) for each antenna need to be configured in the same frame? Or do we only need to match the displacement values ​​we need? If it is the latter, what should we do with other phase shift values ​​that we have not used? Should the incoming phase value be written as 0? Or the corresponding phase value, such as a phase shift of 5.625°, is not used by us, so when we input the phase shift value on the interface, should we input 5.625 or 0?

3. Even if we use a certain phase shift value, such as 5.625, when we measure that the shift term is 0, the obtained angular reverse phase is 1°, and when the shift term is 5.625, the theoretically obtained angular reverse phase is 6.625°, the actual phase measured by angle inversion is 6.5°, so what should be the parameters we pass in in the interface corresponding to the phase shift value 5.625? Is it 6.5, or 6.5-1=5.5, or 6.5-6.625=-0.125?

Regards,

Gary

  • Hi Gary,

    Can you please give more info on angle inversion that you are planning to use?

    Regards,

    Kaushik

  • Hello,

    We are placing the corner reflector 30 meters in front of the radar. Do you mean angle inversion by corner reflector? What information do you want? Our electromagnetic waves will be received by the receiving antenna through angular reflection. For each transmitting antenna, receiving antenna, and phase shifter, we will obtain a phase. I want to know if the input parameters in our interface are the same phase value, or if some operations need to be done, such as those mentioned in the question. I don't know what this has to do with the angular reflector?

    Regards,

    Gary

  • Hello,

    We have determined the usage of the API through experiments, but we still have a problem. Our AWR2243 chip is four cascaded, and we have a total of 12 transmitting antennas, 12 * 64=768. That is to say, we need to have 768 chirps in the same frame, but we should only have 512 chirps in one frame. How should we handle this issue? Or we don't need to have 64 chirps for each antenna, we only need to match the phase shift values we use. What about the phase shift values we don't use?

    Regards,

    Gary

  • Hi Gary,

    Glad to hear you were able to determine the API usage.

    Regarding your chirping,

    1. I believe you have a certain phase shift per Tx that comes out in the 12-chirp count. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
    2. Are the 64 chirps per set of chirps unique to each other or is it that the same 12 that are looped continuously?
    3. Can you give more details here: "That is to say, we need to have 768 chirps in the same frame, but we should only have 512 chirps in one frame"?

    Regards,

    Kaushik