AWR1843BOOST mmw demo operation guide (Part 1)

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Author: Meichen An/Chris Meng

a. Hardware equipment:

• Taking AWR1843BOOST RevC as an example, it can also be used as a reference for running mmw demo on other millimeter wave evaluation boards.
• 5V3A power supply
• USB cable

b. Software environment:

• mmWave SDK (taking mmwave_sdk_03_04_00_03 as an example)

Download link: https://software-dl.ti.com/ra-processors/esd/MMWAVE-SDK/latest/index_FDS.html

• XDS110 driver (install one of the following two software)
  • Code Composer Studio (CCS 9.3 or above, taking CCS10.1.0 as an example)

Download link: https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/ccs_downloads.html

(You can choose between Custom Installation and Full Installation as the installation method. After selecting Custom Installation, be sure to check mmWave Sensors in the Select Components step.)

• • XDS Emulation Software 7.0.188.0 or above

Download link: https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/xdsdebugprobes/emu_xds_software_package_download.html

• Uniflash (Use UNIFLASH_ 6.0.0.2710 offline version as an example)

Link: https://www.ti.com/tool/UNIFLASH

You can also use the online version of Uniflash, link https://dev.ti.com/uniflash

Note: Try to use the default path for software installation, and make sure the custom path does not contain Chinese characters or spaces.

Note: During the installation process, relevant drivers will be installed to ensure successful installation.

c. Operation steps:

3.1 Burn mmv demo to AWR1843BOOST

a. Set SOP0-2 on the AWR1843BOOST board to 1, 0, 1 respectively. Then connect the computer via USB and turn on the 5V power supply, as shown in Figure 1. In the computer's device manager, you can see User UART and DATA PORT, which correspond to COM4 and COM3 respectively (the corresponding port numbers may vary on different computers), as shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 1 AWR1843BOOST SOP programming settings and wiring reference

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Figure 2 Example of AWR1843BOOST serial port display on a computer

b. Run the Unifalsh tool and click to select the chip to be burned, such as AWR1843BOOST.

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Figure 3 Uniflash selects the example of programming device

c. Click the Setting & Uitlities option and configure the correct serial port (the serial port number shown as XDS110 Class Application/User UART in Figure 2, which is COM4 here).

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Figure 4 Example of configuring the serial port in Uniflash

d. Return to Program and click Browse. Select the bin file named xwr18xx_mmw_demo.bin in the directory mmWaveSDK\mmwave_sdk_03_04_00_03\packages\ti\demo\xwr18xx\mmw (the selected folder/file name may vary depending on the mmWave evaluation board).

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Figure 5 Uniflash programming window example

e. Click Load Image to start burning and wait for a while. You can see the successful log print in the Console window.

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Figure 6 Example of console output after Uniflash is successfully burned

f. Close the uniflash tool software. Disconnect the AWR1843BOOST power supply, and set the SOP of the AWR1843BOOST to SOP0 = 1 (short circuit) and the others to 0, as shown in Figure 7.

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Figure 7 AWR1843BOOST SOP working mode settings