HI,
I would like to use the LVDS output interface of the AWR1843 radar chip, but I'm missing a few details of the interface description which I could not yet find in any manual or document. The open questions at the moment are the following:
1. What is the frequency of the frame clock? In chapter 2.4.1 of the document „TSW140x High Speed Data Capture/Pattern Generator Card” I could find that it is the same as the ADC sampling rate. For the AWR1843 this should then be 25 MHz, right?
2. What is first sent over the serial interface, MSB or LSB?
3. From chapter 24.4.3 of the document „mmWave Studio GUI“ I could learn, that there is maybe a sync-pattern before each packet. Is that true? Does it come before each packet or only before the very first one of the data burst? How is it distributed over the two LVDS lanes? How does it really look like?
| 2047 | 2048 | 2047 | 2048 | … or | 2047 + 2^15 | 2048 + 2^15 | 2047 + 2^15 | 2048 + 2^15 | ...
4. What is the spacing between the packets or sync patterns? Are there gaps or is the data stream contiguous (within a burst)? What is sent when there is no data to send?
Many thanks already in advance for helping me with those questions.