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AWR1642BOOST: mmWave demo .dat file unreadable in matlab

Prakash Jaganathan
Prodigy 40 points
Part Number: AWR1642BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AWR1642

The mmWave visualizer demo provided with the AWR1642 has a record option to save the data from the sensor onto a pc but this data is in the form of a .dat file, I have been trying to import this file into MATLAB in order to plot it using surf and do other processing but I am unable to do so as the data in the file is not in a form directly readable by MATLAB. I would appreciate it very much if anyone could suggest a way to do this. 

P.S: I have been reading other similar issues people have had with this on the forums but I don't understand the answers to them as they only mention to look up the TLV types in the SDK documentation.

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    TI__Genius 14835 points
    Hi Prakash,

    I'm afraid we do not have any reference code to import these into Matlab and you will need to write one yourself.

    The file is a raw binary file and the data format is documented in the SDK documentation. There is an unofficial python parser for this, as you would have seen in the other threads, but other than this we do not have something that you can use right away.

    Best Regards,
    Anand
  • 0 in reply to Anand Gadiyar
    Prodigy 40 points
    Okay, thank you for the reply, I shall try it out.