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

3 List of Calibrations

TI’s mmWave radar devices support the calibrations described in the following sections. All calibrations can be performed at the RF initialization phase (when the RfInit() API is called during the power up), and some can also be carried out at runtime. The user can select the calibrations to be executed at RfInit and runtime using the AWR_RF_INIT_CALIBRATION_CONF_SB API (to be called before RfInit API) and the AWR_RUN_TIME_CALIBRATION_CONF_AND_TRIGGER_SB API. Two of these calibrations (APLL and Synthesizer VCO calibrations) are always enabled at boot time and at runtime, and cannot be disabled. The time required for these two calibrations, and for all enabled periodic runtime calibrations, must be budgeted for when defining the frame configuration. More details can be found in the Interface Control Document available as part of the mmwave DFP package.

If a calibration is disabled at the RF initialization phase, it cannot be enabled at run time. In this case, the corresponding blocks always use fixed settings and will not compensate for changes device process variation and in temperature.

Note:

The term "boot time" in this document refers to the RF initialization phase.