AWR1443BOOST: mmwave radar

Lincoln Morant

Part Number: AWR1443BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: IWR1443BOOST, AWR1642BOOST, UNIFLASH, AWR1642, AWR1443

Three Evaluation boards bought on around November 2017 are not working. Two of the boards an AWR1642BOOST and an IWR1443BOOST were turned on at the time of purchase by my colleague and functioned properly.The third device an AWR1443BOOST is with me and was only turned on in the last 4 weeks. I could not communicate with the device; the XDS 110 Application and data ports were both recognized as COM3. I shifted from my laptop to my Desktop and the only change was COM3 and COM4 respectively, no port numbers. My colleague re- tried the other two boards and could not communicate with them. We tried a number of different things including downloading the Emupack as suggested in the user Guide.
We would like to find out if there was any SW changes by TI and any reason why the devices are not working. We have other functioning AWR1642BOOSTS bought in 2018.

over 6 years ago

0 Cesar over 6 years ago

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Hi,

There should not be any changes that impact the connection. So you are not able to see both COM ports. Is this correct?

Thank you

cesar

0 Vivek Dham over 6 years ago in reply to Cesar

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Hello,

On the non working board are the two COM ports "XDS110 Class Application/User port" and "XDS110 Class Auxiliary Data port" showing up in the device manager?

regards,

Vivek

0 Lincoln Morant over 6 years ago in reply to Cesar

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Yes, the port numbers are not defined. Tried both on Laptop and Desktop (Windows 10)

0 Lincoln Morant over 6 years ago in reply to Vivek Dham

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Both ports show up as "COM 3 on my Windows 10 Laptop and COM 3 and COM 4 on my window 10 Desktop.; no actual port numbers.

0 Vivek Dham over 6 years ago in reply to Lincoln Morant

TI__Guru 58035 points

Hello Lincoln,

The two ports should have different numbers. Can you manually change the COM port number and share the screenshoot of the device manager?

Regards,

Vivek

0 Lincoln Morant over 6 years ago in reply to Vivek Dham

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As an update I switched from my Laptop to my Desktop and the ports came up as COM 3 and COM 4 (as opposed to the COM 3 for both on the Laptop). There was still no port numbers.

0 Vivek Dham over 6 years ago in reply to Lincoln Morant

TI__Guru 58035 points

Hello Lincoln,

Could you clarify what you mean by "there was still no port numbers" ? You are seeing COM 3 and COM4 as the two XDS110 ports in the device manager? You need to use the Application/user COM port number in the Uniflash tool.

By the way, a Nov2017 1443 device would most likely be a older ES2.0 silicon version, this is no longer supported since it was early pre-production parts. You will need to purchase a newer version of the 1443 device (ES3.0 production version).

Regards,

Vivek

0 Lincoln Morant over 6 years ago in reply to Vivek Dham

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Thanks for the input.

We went further and used a PC that is being used to Evaluate an AWR1642 Boost. The COM ports were now identified as COM 5 (Congig) and COM6 (Data). We followed the procedure and this time the computer just kept running with message .. connecting to target and never did.

I am including a few screen shots

0 Vivek Dham over 6 years ago in reply to Lincoln Morant

TI__Guru 58035 points

Hello,

If it is the AWR1443 ES2.0 samples then the present OOB application will not work for that version of the silicon. You can look at the marking on the silicon and compare it to he details in the following document: http://www.ti.com/lit/er/swrz075c/swrz075c.pdf to verify if your silicon version is ES2.0 or ES3.0.

regards,

Vivek

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