AWR1843BOOST: sdk, ros

Andinet Hunde

Prodigy 40 points

Part Number: AWR1843BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AWR1843, AWR1642,

I have awr1843 boost es2.0.

I would like to know if the latest sdk (03_03_00_03) supports this device. From what I can see here , awr1843 is not among the supported devices in the list.
I have been working on awr1642 for quite sometime and I am wondering if there is a migration guide to port code into awr1843. If possible, a ROS wrapper implementation would be my primary preference.

Thank you

Andinet

over 5 years ago

0 Cesar over 5 years ago

TI__Guru*** 149044 points

Hi,

SDK 3.3 supports AWR1843BOOST EVM.

As far as migrating code from AWR1642 to AWR1843, the code that you have developed for AWR1642 should run on AWR1843,

AWR1843 has additional memory and a third TX. So, AWR1843 is a superset of AWR1642 and the code developed for AWR1642 should run with no problems on AWR1843

thank you
cesar

0 Kyle Cousino over 5 years ago in reply to Cesar

TI__Mastermind 24955 points

Andinet,

On the page where you download the SDK, for version 3.3, found here, http://software-dl.ti.com/ra-processors/esd/MMWAVE-SDK/latest/index_FDS.html, it states that AWR1843 is a supported platform.

Regards,
Kyle

0 Andinet Hunde over 5 years ago in reply to Kyle Cousino

Prodigy 40 points

Kyle,

The device I have is AWR1843 ES2.0. AWR1843 ES1.0 is enlisted in the page, but not AWR1843 ES2.0. Anyways, I downloaded the windows installer and flashed it a few weeks ago.

0 Andinet Hunde over 5 years ago in reply to Cesar

Prodigy 40 points

Thank you Cesar,

I am testing the device for ROS applications. The result that I found was unconvincing, because there are detections beyond the FoV in the elevation plane. Here is the result displayed in rviz.

0 Cesar over 5 years ago in reply to Andinet Hunde

TI__Guru*** 149044 points

Hi,

There is no AWR1843 ES2.0. There may be some confusion in the silicon version.For AWR1642 there used to be ES1.0 and ES2.0. but for AWR1843 there is only ES 1.0

So, the device you have is supported by mmwave SDK 3.3

I recommend you run the mmWave SDK 3.3 demo with recommended Visualizer. This demo has been tested by the sw team and we trust it works correctly.

Then you can move to ROS.

Since we don't have a specific ROS release for AWR1843, support would have to come from the forum community. The following thread provides information on how to implement ROS with AWR1843

https://e2e.ti.com/support/sensors/f/1023/t/770238

thank you

Cesar