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IWR6843ISK: IWR6843ISK

Part Number: IWR6843ISK
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: UNIFLASH, IWR6843

Hi we bought IWR6843ISK board from Digikey recently. We have made the right DIP switch connection - 

Dip1 - On

Dip2 - Off

Dip3 - On

Dip4 - On

Dip5 - off

Dip6 - off

and launched uniflash and selected IWR6843. Our and selected the enhnaced for the COM port and lcated the bin file - C:\ti\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\rf_eval_firmware\radarss\xwr68xx_radarss.bin

But we are getting following errro - 

[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [INFO] Cortex_R4_0: ** 1 files specified for flashing.
[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [INFO] Cortex_R4_0: Checking file C:/Users/nitin/AppData/Local/Temp/ti_cloud_storage/xwr68xx_radarss (2).bin for correct header for IWR6843.
[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [INFO] Cortex_R4_0: Header of C:/Users/nitin/AppData/Local/Temp/ti_cloud_storage/xwr68xx_radarss (2).bin file indicates it is not a valid file to flash to IWR6843: 0x43525052
[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [ERROR] Cortex_R4_0: !!! Aborting flashing of specified files!!!
[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [INFO] Cortex_R4_0: Disconnecting from device on COM port COM7...
[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [INFO] Cortex_R4_0: Flashing instance clean-up initiated...
[07/03/2024, 09:23:07] [INFO] Cortex_R4_0: Instance deinitialized!

Please advise what is wrong here. We need to get this bord working asap pls.

thanks 

  • Hi,

    You are trying to flash an incorrect binary. Please download the demo from the below location

    mmwave_sdk_03_06_00_00-LTS\packages\ti\demo\xwr68xx\mmw\xwr68xx_mmw_demo.bin 

    This is the out of box demo which you should try out first before you work with any other demos

    Regards