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DCA1000EVM: DCA1000EVM+IWR1443BOOST without mmWave Studio ?

Part Number: DCA1000EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: IWR1443BOOST, IWR1443

Hi, I'm running the mmWave Studio (1.0.0.0) demo with DCA1000EVM and IWR1443BOOST radar board.

The demo is working fine on my laptop with default LUA script (DataCaptureDemo_xWR.lua).

However, it seems that the demo mode is quite slow and cannot be easily automated... (but maybe I'm wrong ?).

My question is: is it possible to capture raw data with the DCA1000EVM with a standalone software (without using mmWave Studio) ?

Based on the DCA1000 user guide (http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruij4),

I wrote a piece of C code and I'm able to send command over the UDP link (port 4096) to start and stop the capture and I'm also able to read the data flow on port 4098 to do real time processing.

However, I still need mmWave Studio to perform the initial configuration phase (SPI connect and LUA script commands like ar1.PowerOn, ar1.RfEnable... ar1.ChirpConfig... ar1.StartFrame...).

I did not find any information in the documents about the commands to send on the COM ports.

What is the action of ar1.PowerOn, at1.RfEnable... macros ?

It would be nice if this part of the interface is also documented in order to write my own software, because I would like to automate the capture without handling the mmWave Studio GUI.

Thanks for your help