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DCA1000EVM: Firmware mismatch on RF Power-Up

Maximilian Viehbeck
Prodigy 20 points
Part Number: DCA1000EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AWR1243BOOST

I'm using mmWave Studio to connect to DCA1000EVM and AWR1243BOOST. I can connect to the Setup and load the firmware, as well as connect via SPI.

However, if I click RF Power-Up the displayed firmware versions change both to 0.0.0.0, a firmware mismatch warning occurs, and I can't communicate with the DCA1000EVM.

I also noticed, that changing the baudrate from 115200 to 921600 caused the MSS firmware to not being loaded correctly (showing version 0.0.0.0 directly after completing the load process), although the higher baudrate worked well in a previous setup with the same computer.

I have set the jumpers on the AWR1243BOOST board at SOP0 and SOP1. SOP2 is not set, so the board is in development mode. The same setup worked already until the DCA1000EVM board got destroyed due to a too high input voltage. With the new DCA1000EVM the setup doesn't work anymore, although the software configuration hasn't changed.

The radar module was already testet in combination with a TSW1400EVM and worked fine, so I don't think it got damaged by overvoltage.

I am aware of the "index was outside the bounds of the array" error however as i understood, this is only needed for postprocessing and should not influence data capturing.

Any ideas how to fix this?

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    TI__Mastermind 24955 points

    Maximilian,

    The baudrate should be set to 921600 in mmWave Studio. Please make sure that you are connecting to the "Application/UART" port listed in the Windows Device Manager.

    Since your AWR1243BOOST EVM is an ES2.0 device, you will need to download the previous version of mmWave Studio, version 1.0. mmWaveStudio version 2.0 does not include MSS and BSS firmware that is valid for ES2.0 devices, only ES3.0 devices.

    You can download the previous version of mmWaveStudio here: http://software-dl.ti.com/ra-processors/esd/MMWAVE-STUDIO/01_00_00_00/index_FDS.html

    Please also make sure that you have MATLAB runtime version 8.5.1 (32-bit) installed on you PC as well. It looks like you get some kind of MATLAB runtime engine error during startup.

    Regards,
    Kyle

  • 0 in reply to Kyle Cousino
    Prodigy 20 points

    Hi Kyle,

    the older version of mmWave Studio solved the problem. The Matlab error also disappeard but I can't tell why. Any idea why it worked well with mmWaveStudio 2.0.0.2 and the previous (now due to overvoltage broken)  DCA1000EVM.

    Regards,

    Maximilian