IWR1843BOOST: mmwave studio RESP TIMEOUT during SPI connection

I found this thread, I tried different power supply, it did not work, tried different version of mmwave studio, it does not work. I have attached the dca1000 switch setting i used

HI, Chunmei:

Can you switch to another set of power supply to try?  The power adaptor needs to be 5v, >2.5A.

Best,

Zigang

I did, and no luck. 

btw, I was using my current power supplies on IWR6843ISK and IWR6843AOP evm and no problem at all, why IWR1843 evm is different?

HI, Chunmei:

It really should not.   There is a recent e2e thread that has similar issue, e2e.ti.com/.../973311

I have listed some debug resource in that thread, can you take a look?  So basically this DCA1000 works for some of your other EVMs, just not working with this IWR1843EVM?  In that case, you also want to run out of box demo to verify the board is working all right.

Best,

Zigang

I am looking at the DCA1000 debug handbook, in the handbook, there is a note about spi connection failure 

this might be what I encountered

So I am using mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00, and i purchased IWR1843BOOST from TI.com last week, I think it is ES2.0. I do not know what SDK version comes with it.

My question is with this hardware IWR1843 ES2.0, what mmwave_studio version, what sdk version should I use?

How do i check the firmware version to make sure it aligns with the silicon version. 

Although latest mmwave studio release notes indicate that it supports xWR1843 ES1.  But it actually support xWR1843 ES2. The device version is shown in the radar studio GUI after connecting the UART port.  This is mentioned in the other e2e thread: e2e.ti.com/.../973311

Best,

Zigang

Chumei,

I was able to reproduce the same error you get using the same setup. One of the folks that have been helping me noticed I had SW2 on the xWR1843BOOST board set improperly. Mine was set for CAN mode, I slid S2 to the SPI position and I no longer get the error.

I was looking at the board pic you provided and it appears you too have S2 set for CAN. Can you move it to the SPI position and try that out?

As part of the debug, I was told we should be using the following firmware files and not the defaults that show up in mmWave Studio GUI.

C:\ti\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\rf_eval_firmware\radarss\xwr18xx_radarss.bin 

C:\ti\mmwave_studio_02_01_01_00\rf_eval_firmware\masterss\xwr18xx_masterss.bin

Here's my screen-shot using those firmware files and with S2 in the SPI position.

Thanks

Hi, Zigang

I am wondering for the Device status shown in the screen shot. 

When I Click the second step "connect", the device status shows XWR1843/QM/SOP:2/ES:2. However yours shows ASIL-B which is not same as mine.

What does it mean?

Best,

Xi

Hi Zigang,

What CSS version did you install. I currently have the latest one which only have the 64bits version of it.

Do I need to install the version which has the 32-bits installer.

HI, Xi:

Let us continue the discussion on your e2e thread.  

Best,

Zigang