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AWR1642 MMW Demo uses two TX antennas to double the number of angle bins in the range-azimuth heat map. The explanation
for MIMO processing assumes that the distance between TX antennas is four times the distance between the receiver
antennas, allowing to create the "virtual receiver" array of 8 antennas. However, the distance between TX antennas on
the board does not seem to be equal to four times the interval between the RX antennas
1) Could you point out the exact specification of AWR1642Boost antenna geometry? I assume that
design schematics for the board have that info, but they are in the Altium designer format, not that easy to view on Linux
2) Does the "heat map" calculation in MMW demo firmware performs simple fft along the receivers to resolve the angles, or
is some more complicated algorithm employed?
3) If it is fft, do you perform some correction for the nonuniform spacing between the MIMO "virtual antennas"
due to the distance between TX antennas not equal to four times the distance between the RX antennas?
Thank you for any help.
Mikhail
Hi,
Please review the documentation for the mmWave SDK Demo.
Answer 1
Antenna Layout
file:///C:/ti/mmwave_sdk_02_01_00_04/packages/ti/demo/xwr16xx/mmw/docs/doxygen/html/index.html
Answer 2
AoA is described in same doc
Answer 3
Please read the doc
thank you
Cesar
Hello, Cesar,
thank you for quick reply.
> Answer 1
> Antenna Layout
f> ile:///C:/ti/mmwave_sdk_02_01_00_04/packages/ti/demo/xwr16xx/mmw/docs/doxygen/html/index.html
I have mmwave_sdk_03_02_01_02, and the documentation file you list does not have quantitative data
on antenna layout, that is, dimensions in millimeters. Do you mean that the earlier version of SDK has
this data in the documentation?
> AoA is described in same doc
Do you mean that AoA for detected reflections is the same as for the heat map pixels?
Thanks,
Mikhail
Hello, Cesar
I have installed the LTS release 02.01.00.04 in addition to the latest available version 03.03.00.03. The
antenna configuration diagram with dimensions that you helpfully posted is included in
~/ti/mmwave_sdk_02_01_00_04/packages/ti/demo/xwr16xx/mmw/docs/doxygen/html/index.html
but not in either
~/mmwave_sdk_03_02_01_02/packages/ti/demo/xwr16xx/mmw/docs/doxygen/html/index.html
or
~/ti/mmwave_sdk_03_03_00_03/packages/ti/demo/xwr16xx/mmw/docs/doxygen/html/index.html
It looks like the LTS verson documentation is more complete than the one of the current release. Perhaps,
there should have been some warning about this in the forum answer or SDK downloads page.
Thanks,
Mikhail