I am currently trying to extract raw data but I am having some issues with it:
The material I am currently using is the following one:
- DCA1000
- IWR6843AOPEVM Revision G (no need of mmWaveBoost)
- mmWave studio 02.01.01.00
The board is being detected correctly since the FTDI drivers and the XDS110/CP210x drivers are installed, and the device manager is showing them as expected.
The board is connected and correctly detected by the mmWave studio SW, and I have been able to reproduce the steps inside the DCA100 User Guide dev.ti.com/.../node. The Setup Static IP for Ethernet Data Transfer has already been done. However, in the last step of the data extraction process, the raw data is supposed to be stored in the adc_data.bin file under the postProc directory; nevertheless, this file is never updated with the new raw data. When checking the output of the mmWavestudio it is showing a more specific error: Unable to read FPGA Version. [error -5]. This error happens when trying to connect the mmWave studio application via Ethernet to the DCA1000. According to other forum that presented the same error, several reasons can be casuing this issue:
- Firewall
- Ethernet static IP
- mmWave version
The previous solutions were tested and they did not solve the issue. On the other hand, another alternative was tested, which consisted on reflash the FPGA code in the DCA1000 you can refer to the DCA1000 user manual for instructions (www.ti.com/.../spruij4a.pdf) , section 9. The FPGA binary file is available in the mmwave studio package. However, this has not solved the issue either.
I have started to believe that it has to do with a HW issue, so I checked the LED status of the DCA1000 board which have the following behavior:
- 5V LED: Constantly green
- FPGA_init: Blinking red
- DATA_TRAN_PRG: Blinking green
- SD_DETECT: Blinking green
- SD_FULL: Blinking red
- SPARE: Blinking green
- DDR_FULL: Blinking red
- FPGA_ERR: Blinking red
- LVDS_PATH_ERR:
- HDR_ERR: Blinking red
- EEPROM_RD_FAIL: Blinking red
Any idea of what may be causing these errors?
