SWRS202C May   2017  – January 2022 AWR1443

PRODUCTION DATA  

  1. 1 Features
  2. 2 Applications
  3. 3 Description
  4. 4 Functional Block Diagram
  5. 5 Revision History
  6. 6 Device Comparison
    1. 6.1 Related Products
  7. 7 Terminal Configuration and Functions
    1. 7.1 Pin Diagram
    2. 7.2 Signal Descriptions
      1. 7.2.1 Signal Descriptions
    3. 7.3 Pin Multiplexing
  8. 8 Specifications
    1. 8.1 Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 8.2 ESD Ratings
    3. 8.3 Power-On Hours (POH)
    4. 8.4 Recommended Operating Conditions
    5. 8.5 Power Supply Specifications
    6. 8.6 Power Consumption Summary
    7. 8.7 RF Specification
    8. 8.8 Thermal Resistance Characteristics for FCBGA Package [ABL0161]
    9. 8.9 Timing and Switching Characteristics
      1. 8.9.1  Power Supply Sequencing and Reset Timing
      2. 8.9.2  Synchronized Frame Triggering
      3. 8.9.3  Input Clocks and Oscillators
        1. 8.9.3.1 Clock Specifications
      4. 8.9.4  Multibuffered / Standard Serial Peripheral Interface (MibSPI)
        1. 8.9.4.1 Peripheral Description
        2. 8.9.4.2 MibSPI Transmit and Receive RAM Organization
          1. 8.9.4.2.1 SPI Timing Conditions
          2. 8.9.4.2.2 SPI Controller Mode Switching Parameters (CLOCK PHASE = 0, SPICLK = output, SPISIMO = output, and SPISOMI = input) (1) (1) (1)
          3. 8.9.4.2.3 SPI Controller Mode Switching Parameters (CLOCK PHASE = 1, SPICLK = output, SPISIMO = output, and SPISOMI = input) (1) (1) (1)
        3. 8.9.4.3 SPI Peripheral Mode I/O Timings
          1. 8.9.4.3.1 SPI Peripheral Mode Switching Parameters (SPICLK = input, SPISIMO = input, and SPISOMI = output) (1) (1) (1)
        4. 8.9.4.4 Typical Interface Protocol Diagram (Peripheral Mode)
      5. 8.9.5  LVDS Interface Configuration
        1. 8.9.5.1 LVDS Interface Timings
      6. 8.9.6  General-Purpose Input/Output
        1. 8.9.6.1 Switching Characteristics for Output Timing versus Load Capacitance (CL)
      7. 8.9.7  Controller Area Network Interface (DCAN)
        1. 8.9.7.1 Dynamic Characteristics for the DCANx TX and RX Pins
      8. 8.9.8  Serial Communication Interface (SCI)
        1. 8.9.8.1 SCI Timing Requirements
      9. 8.9.9  Inter-Integrated Circuit Interface (I2C)
        1. 8.9.9.1 I2C Timing Requirements (1)
      10. 8.9.10 Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI)
        1. 8.9.10.1 QSPI Timing Conditions
        2. 8.9.10.2 Timing Requirements for QSPI Input (Read) Timings (1) (1)
        3. 8.9.10.3 QSPI Switching Characteristics
      11. 8.9.11 JTAG Interface
        1. 8.9.11.1 JTAG Timing Conditions
        2. 8.9.11.2 Timing Requirements for IEEE 1149.1 JTAG
        3. 8.9.11.3 Switching Characteristics Over Recommended Operating Conditions for IEEE 1149.1 JTAG
  9. 9 Detailed Description
    1. 9.1 Overview
    2. 9.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 9.3 External Interfaces
    4. 9.4 Subsystems
      1. 9.4.1 RF and Analog Subsystem
        1. 9.4.1.1 Clock Subsystem
        2. 9.4.1.2 Transmit Subsystem
        3. 9.4.1.3 Receive Subsystem
        4. 9.4.1.4 Radio Processor Subsystem
      2. 9.4.2 Main (Control) System
      3. 9.4.3 Host Interface
    5. 9.5 Accelerators and Coprocessors
    6. 9.6 Other Subsystems
      1. 9.6.1 ADC Channels (Service) for User Application
        1. 9.6.1.1 GP-ADC Parameter
    7. 9.7 Boot Modes
      1. 9.7.1 Flashing Mode
      2. 9.7.2 Functional Mode
  10. 10Applications, Implementation, and Layout
    1. 10.1 Application Information
    2. 10.2 Short-Range Radar
    3. 10.3 Blind Spot Detector and Ultrasonic Upgrades
    4. 10.4 Reference Schematic
  11. 11Device and Documentation Support
    1. 11.1 Device Nomenclature
    2. 11.2 Tools and Software
    3. 11.3 Documentation Support
    4. 11.4 Support Resources
    5. 11.5 Trademarks
    6. 11.6 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    7. 11.7 Glossary
  12. 12Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information
    1. 12.1 Packaging Information

9.5 Accelerators and Coprocessors

The Processing System in the AWR1443 device is an accelerator for FFT operations. The Radar Hardware Accelerator is an IP that enables off-loading the burden of certain frequently used computations in FMCW radar signal processing from the main processor. It is well-known that FMCW radar signal processing involves the use of FFT and Log-Magnitude computations in order to obtain a radar image across the range, velocity and angle dimensions. Some of the frequently used functions in FMCW radar signal processing can be done within the Radar Hardware Accelerator, while still retaining the flexibility of implementing other proprietary algorithms in the Master System processor.

Key features of the Radar Processing Accelerator are:

  • FFT computation, with programmable FFT sizes (powers of 2) up to 1024-pt complex FFT
  • Internal FFT bit-width of 24 bits (each for I and Q) for good SQNR performance, with fully programmable butterfly scaling at every radix-2 stage for user flexibility
  • Built-in capabilities for simple pre-FFT processing – specifically, programmable windowing, basic interference zeroing-out and basic BPM removal
  • Magnitude (absolute value) and Log-Magnitude computation capability
  • Flexible data flow and data sample arrangement to support efficient multi-dimensional FFT operations and transpose accesses as required
  • Chaining and Looping mechanism to sequence a set of accelerator operations one-after-another with minimal intervention from the main processor
  • CFAR-CA detector support (linear and logarithmic)
  • Miscellaneous other capabilities of the accelerator
    • Stitching two or four 1024-point FFTs to get the equivalent of 2048-point or 4096-point FFT for industrial level sensing applications where large FFT sizes are required
    • Slow DFT mode, with resolution equivalent to 16K size FFT, for FFT peak interpolation (eg. range interpolation) purpose
    • Complex Vector Multiplication and Dot product capability for vectors of size up to 512