SPRACF4C June   2018  – January 2023 AWR1243 , AWR1443 , AWR1642 , AWR1843 , AWR1843AOP , AWR2243 , AWR6843 , AWR6843AOP , IWR1843 , IWR6443 , IWR6843 , IWR6843AOP

 

  1.   Trademarks
  2. 1Introduction
    1. 1.1 Purpose of Calibrations
    2. 1.2 Purpose of Monitoring Mechanisms
  3. 2Hardware Infrastructure to Support Calibration and Monitoring
  4. 3List of Calibrations
    1. 3.1  APLL Calibration
    2. 3.2  Synthesizer VCO Calibration
    3. 3.3  LO Distribution Calibration
    4. 3.4  ADC DC Offset Calibration
    5. 3.5  HPF Cutoff Calibration
    6. 3.6  LPF Cutoff Calibration
    7. 3.7  Peak Detector Calibration
    8. 3.8  TX Power Calibration
    9. 3.9  RX Gain Calibration
    10. 3.10 IQ Mismatch Calibration
    11. 3.11 TX Phase Shifter Calibration
  5. 4Impact of Calibration on Gain and Phase
  6. 5Impact of Interference on the Calibrations and Emissions Caused Due to Calibrations
  7. 6Scheduling of Runtime Calibration and Monitoring
    1. 6.1 Selection of CALIB_MON_TIME_UNIT
    2. 6.2 Selection of CALIBRATION_PERIODICITY
    3. 6.3 Application-Controlled One Time Calibration
  8. 7Software Controllability of Calibration
    1. 7.1  Calibration and Monitoring Frequency Limits
    2. 7.2  Calibration and Monitoring TX Frequency and Power Limit
    3. 7.3  Calibration Status Reports
      1. 7.3.1 RF Initialization Calibration Completion
      2. 7.3.2 Runtime Calibration Status Report
      3. 7.3.3 Calibration/Monitoring Timing Failure Status Report
    4. 7.4  Programming CAL_MON_TIME_UNIT
    5. 7.5  Calibration Periodicity
    6. 7.6  RF Initialization Calibration
    7. 7.7  Runtime Calibration
    8. 7.8  Overriding the TX Power Calibration LUT
    9. 7.9  Overriding the RX Gain Calibration LUT
    10. 7.10 Retrieving and Restoring Calibration Data
  9. 8References
  10.   A Calibration and Monitoring Durations
    1.     A.1 Duration of Boot Time Calibrations
  11.   Revision History

Calibration and Monitoring TX Frequency and Power Limit

The user can select the frequency band and Tx power level to be used during the calibrations and monitoring. This is done using the rlRfTxFreqPwrLimitConfig API. The Tx power level and chirp frequency range for the active chirp is selected by the Profile Config. These two are not automatically interlinked to each other within the firmware, so the user could choose to use same settings for both calibrations and active chirps or keep them different.

To get the best accuracy from the calibrations, TI recommends always using Tx power setting of 0-dB backoff for calibrations/monitoring, even if the active chirps use a higher backoff setting. The calibration frequency range can be kept the same as that of the active chirps.

If using a 0-dB backoff setting during calibrations impacts the emission requirements, then TI recommends performing the Tx output power calibration with 0-dB backoff at the factory environment and using the save-restore feature of the calibration in the field operation. Refer to Section 5 for details on the save -restore process steps. During the factory calibration, a 0-db backoff can be used and the

calibrations saved, during the operation the RfInit calibrations are disabled and the saved calibrations results can be restored. The functional chirps can still use larger than 0dB backoff even if the calibrations were done using 0dB backoff.