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

1 Introduction

TI’s mmWave radar sensors include an internal processor to stabilize the radar front end performance across temperature and process by running calibration routines. The processor also enables the sensor’s functional safety by periodically determining RF/analog performance parameters and detecting functional failures by running monitoring routines. The processor is programmed by TI and is dedicated for RF calibration and functional safety monitoring.

This document describes the various calibration mechanisms available in TI’s mmWave radar sensors and their configurability.