Single-chip 76-GHz to 81-GHz automotive radar sensor integrating MCU and hardware accelerator
Product details
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Features
- FMCW transceiver
- Integrated PLL, transmitter, receiver, Baseband, and A2D
- 76- to 81-GHz coverage with 4 GHz available bandwidth
- Four receive channels
- Three transmit channels (two can be used simultaneously)
- Ultra-accurate chirp engine based on fractional-N PLL
- TX power: 12 dBm
- RX noise figure:
- 14 dB (76 to 77 GHz)
- 15 dB (77 to 81 GHz)
- Phase noise at 1 MHz:
- –94 dBc/Hz (76 to 77 GHz)
- –91 dBc/Hz (77 to 81 GHz)
- Built-in calibration and self-test
- ARM® Cortex®-R4F-based radio control system
- Built-in firmware (ROM)
- Self-calibrating system across frequency and temperature
- On-chip programmable core for embedded user application
- Integrated Cortex®-R4F microcontroller clocked at 200 MHz
- On-chip bootloader supports autonomous mode (loading user application from QSPI flash memory)
- Integrated peripherals
- Internal memories With ECC
- Radar hardware accelerator (FFT, log-magnitude computations, and others)
- Integrated timers (watch dog and up to four 32-Bit or Two 64-bit timers)
- I2C (master and slave modes supported)
- Two SPI ports
- CAN port
- Up to six general-purpose ADC ports
- High-speed data interface to support distributed applications (namely, intermediate data)
- Host interface
- Control interface with external processor over SPI
- Interrupts for fault reporting
- AECQ-100 qualified
- AWR1443 advanced features
- Embedded self-monitoring with no host processor involvement
- Complex baseband architecture
- Embedded interference detection capability
- Power management
- Built-in LDO network for enhanced PSRR
- I/Os support dual voltage 3.3 V/1.8 V
- Clock source
- Supports externally driven clock (square/sine) at 40 MHz
- Supports 40 MHz crystal connection with load capacitors
- Easy hardware design
- 0.65-mm pitch, 161-pin 10.4 mm × 10.4 mm flip chip BGA package for easy assembly and low-cost PCB design
- Small solution size
- Supports automotive temperature operating range
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Description
The AWR1443 device is an integrated single-chip FMCW radar sensor capable of operation in the 76- to 81-GHz band. The device is built with TI’s low-power 45-nm RFCMOS process with an integrated ARM R4F processor and a hardware accelerator for radar data processing, and this solution enables unprecedented levels of integration in an extremely small form factor. AWR1443 is an ideal solution for low-power, self-monitored, ultra-accurate radar systems in the automotive space.
The AWR1443 device is a self-contained FMCW radar sensor single-chip solution that simplifies the implementation of Automotive Radar sensors in the band of 76 to 81 GHz. It enables a monolithic implementation of a 3TX, 4RX system with built-in PLL and A2D converters. Simple programming model changes can enable a wide variety of sensor implementation (Short, Mid, Long) with the possibility of dynamic reconfiguration for implementing a multimode sensor. Additionally, the device is provided as a complete platform solution including TI reference designs, software drivers, sample configurations, API guides, and user documentation.
The requirements for a radar device, in terms of radar data cube memory, processing capacity, and functional safety monitoring, vary for different applications. In this context, the AWR1443 can be viewed as a 77-GHz radar-on-a-chip solution for entry-level radar applications
Award-winning sensors available now
AWR1443 is part of TI's award-winning mmWave sensor portfolio. Recent acknowledgements include:
- CES 2018 Innovation Award Honoree in three categories
- Electronic Products 2017 Product of the Year in the sensing category
- 2017 Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for Sensor of the Year
- Elektronik 2018 Reader’s Choice Product of the Year in active components category
Technical documentation
Design & development
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Description
The AWR1443 BoosterPack™ plug-in module is an easy-to-use evaluation board for the single-chip AWR1443 mmWave sensing device, with direct connectivity to the TI MCU LaunchPad™ development-kit ecosystem.
AWR1443BOOST contains everything required to start developing on a low-power Arm® (...)
Features
- Onboard antenna enables field testing
- XDS110-based JTAG with serial-port interface for flash programming
- UART-to-USB interface for control, configuration, and data visualization
- TI LaunchPad development-kit interface to seamlessly connect to TI MCUs
- CAN connector enables direct interface to car units
Description
The DCA1000 evaluation module (EVM) provides real-time data capture and streaming for two- and four-lane low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) traffic from TI radar-sensor BoosterPack™ EVMs. The data can be streamed out via 1-Gbps Ethernet in real time. The data (...)
Features
- Supports lab and mobile collection scenarios
- Captures LVDS data from AWR/IWR radar sensors
- Streams output in real time through 1-Gbps Ethernet
- Controlled via onboard switches or GUI/library
Software development
Features
- Building blocks
- Full driver availability
- Layered approach to programming analog front end (AFE)
- Catalog of mmWave algorithms optimized for C674x DSPs
- Demonstrations and examples
- TI RTOS-based demos
- Out-of-box demo with easy configurability via TI cloud-based GUI
- Representation of "point cloud" and (...)
Features
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Features
By Platform - Find out more about the features available for a specific processor family:
Features
- mmWave Studio
- Post-processing of ADC data and visualization of processed data
- Board control (SOP change, reset control)
- RS-232 connection and firmware download
- Configures mmWave sensors using radar API commands
- Interface to DCA1000EVM for raw ADC data capture
- mmWave Sensing Estimator
- Enables calculation of (...)
Features
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Interactive and intuitive graphical tool for enabling, configuring and generating initialization code for pinmuxing, TI Drivers and stack configuration (Bluetooth® Low Energy, ZigBee®, Thread, TI-15.4, EasyLink and NDK)
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Real-time conflict management to ensure developers are creating a valid system (...)
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Design tools & simulation
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