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AWR1243BOOST: How it's possible to use the board to configure the chirp parameters and get the received data without any extra hardware?

astro
Prodigy 40 points
Part Number: AWR1243BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AWR1243

I'm looking for an easy way to use the board standalone without any extra hardware:

e.g

  1. Configure the waveform parameters and number of antennas .. etc using code composer.
  2. Getting the received data as .bin for offline processing (dsp)

The documentation and user guide is not clear about the standalone usage scenario of AWR1243boost, also for the provided demos they are all addressing other mmWave device families e.g 14xx 16xx and IWRxxx

I hope there will be a clear answer for this issue,

Best Regards,

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    TI__Guru*** 149184 points
    Hi,

    The AWR1243 is a sensor only device. It is not possible to use only the board. You would need to some kind of Master host processor.

    The minimum you will need to use the board is:

    - AWR1243BOOST
    - DEVPACK
    www.ti.com/.../MMWAVE-DEVPACK
    - PC

    The PC would act as the host

    Then you would use the mmWave Studio SW on the PC to program the sensor
    www.ti.com/.../mmwave-studio



    thank you
    Cesar
  • 0 in reply to Cesar
    Prodigy 40 points
    Hi Cesar,

    So I think this is not an issue if I'm using AWR14xx or 16 since they have onboard ARM processor? or do I still need to use devbpack or DCA1000?

    Another point, Can I use AWR1243Boost + Devpack for realtime processing?

    Thank you.
  • 0 in reply to astro
    TI__Guru*** 149184 points
    Hi,

    Sorry maybe I misunderstood your question.

    If your intent is to capture raw data and process the data offline in Matlab for example, you will need any of the AWR1xxxBOOST EVMs and the DCA1000.

    So, just to be clear, you will need

    Hardware
    AWR1xxxBOOST + DCA1000

    Software
    mmWave Studio

    Raw Data will be captured on the PC.

    If the size of the captured raw data is <1Gb, then you have 2 options

    1) Process the data with matlab integrated in the mmWave Studio

    2) Process the data with your own Matlab/Python ... code

    If the size of the captured raw data is >1 Gb, the raw data will be captured in several files. You will only have one option

    1) Process the data with your own Matlab/Python ... code

    I hope this is clear.

    Regarding real time processing, what is your definition of this? Is it

    1) real time processing on a PC
    2) real time processing on the radar

    1) Is not supported
    2) is possible with AWR14xx or AWR16xx using an application that runs on the sensor. Please review the Demos included in the mmwave SDK

    thank you
    cesar