76-GHz to 81-GHz automotive second-generation high-performance MMIC
Product details
Parameters
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Features
- FMCW transceiver
- Integrated PLL, transmitter, receiver, baseband, and A2D
- 76- to 81-GHz coverage with 5 GHz available bandwidth
- Four receive channels
- Three transmit channels
- Ultra-accurate chirp engine based on Fractional-N PLL
- TX power: 13 dBm
- RX noise figure: 12 dB
- Phase noise at 1 MHz:
- –96 dBc/Hz (76 to 77 GHz)
- –94 dBc/Hz (77 to 81 GHz)
- Built-in calibration and self-test
- Built-in firmware (ROM)
- Self-calibrating system across frequency and temperature
- Host interface
- Control interface with external processor over SPI or I2C interface
- Data interface with external processor over MIPI D-PHY and CSI2 v1.1
- Interrupts for Fault Reporting
- Functional Safety-Compliant targeted
- Developed for functional safety applications
- Documentation is available to aid ISO 26262 functional safety system design
- Hardware integrity up to ASIL B targeted
- Safety-related certification
- ISO 26262 certification by TUV Sud planned
- AEC-Q100 qualified
- AWR2243 advanced features
- Embedded self-monitoring with limited Host processor involvement
- Complex baseband architecture
- Option of cascading multiple devices to increase channel count
- 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 AWR2243 device is an integrated single-chip FMCW transceiver capable of operation in the 76- to 81-GHz band. The device enables unprecedented levels of integration in an extremely small form factor. AWR2243 is an ideal solution for low power, self-monitored, ultra-accurate radar systems in the automotive space.
The AWR2243 device is a self-contained FMCW transceiver single-chip solution that simplifies the implementation of Automotive Radar sensors in the band of 76 to 81 GHz. It is built on TI’s low-power 45-nm RFCMOS process, which 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 reference hardware design, software drivers, sample configurations, API guide, and user documentation.
Technical documentation
Design & development
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Description
The AWR2243 BoosterPack™ plug-in module is an easy-to-use evaluation board for the single-chip AWR2243 mmWave sensing device.
AWR2243BOOST contains everything required to start developing using the MMWAVE-STUDIO environment and the DCA1000 real-time data capture adapter.
The standard 20-pin BoosterPack (...)
Features
- Onboard antenna enables field testing
- Standard interface for DCA1000 connectivity and MMWAVE-STUDIO for raw data capture
- TI LaunchPad development-kit interface to seamlessly connect to TI MCUs
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 AWR and IWR radar sensor EVMs. The data can be streamed out via 1-Gbps Ethernet in real time to a PC running the MMWAVE-STUDIO tool for (...)
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
Description
The MMWCAS-DSP evaluation module (EVM) design provides a processing foundation for a cascaded imaging radar system. Cascade radar devices can support front, long-range radar (LRR), beamforming applications, as well as corner- and side-cascade radar and sensor fusion systems. This EVM design (...)
Features
- High-performance TDA2x device with four radar processing SIMD accelerators (one EVE per AWRx)
- Ethernet and PCIe connectivity for control and data, respectively
- Reference designs provided in Cascade Imaging Radar Capture Reference Design Using Jacinto™ ADAS Processor (TIDEP-01017) and Imaging Radar (...)
Description
Features
- Imaging radar
- Longer-range TX beamforming and beamsteering
- High angular resolution MIMO
Software development
Features
- Flexible configuration of RF/analog subsystem
- Built-in calibration and monitoring capabilities
- Seamless control and communication using well-defined abstracted APIs
- Advance waveform generation APIs (AWR2243)
- Cascade configuration and APIs (AWR2243)
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 (...)
CCS Uniflash is a standalone tool used to (...)
Design tools & simulation
Features
- Many IWR/AWR devices supported
- Search by application, country, or technical parameters
- Links and contacts for quick engagement
- Third-party companies located around the world
Reference designs
- To use the MMWCAS-DSP-EVM as a capture card to fully evaluate the AWR2243 four-chip cascade performance by using the mmWave studio tool, please read the TIDEP-01012 design guide.
- To use the MMWCAS-DSP-EVM to develop radar real time SW application (...)
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