AWR2243

FC/CSP (ABL)

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108 mm² 10.4 x 10.4

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

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

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.

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.

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	Type	Title	Date
*	Data sheet	AWR2243 Single-Chip 76- to 81-GHz FMCW Transceiver datasheet (Rev. A)	23 Jun 2020
*	Errata	AWR2243 Device Errata Silicon Revisions 1.0 and 1.1 (Rev. A)	23 Jun 2020
	Application note	mmWave Radar Radome Design Guide	17 Aug 2021
	Certificate	Radar - TUV SUD Functional Safety Certificate for AWR2243	09 Aug 2021
	Application note	mmWave Production Testing Overview	10 Apr 2021
	User guide	AWR2243 Evaluation Module (AWR2243BOOST) mmWave Sensing Solution User's Guide (Rev. D)	22 Feb 2021
	Application note	Self-Calibration of mmWave Radar Devices (Rev. A)	02 Dec 2020
	Application note	Cascade Coherency and Phase Shifter Calibration	28 Nov 2020
	Application note	Power Management Optimizations - Low Cost LC Filter Solution (Rev. A)	11 Nov 2020
	White paper	The fundamentals of millimeter wave radar sensors (Rev. A)	27 Aug 2020
	Technical article	Enabling the highest performance front-end radar to help bring Vision Zero into reality	25 Mar 2020
	Application note	Programming Chirp Parameters in TI Radar Devices (Rev. A)	13 Feb 2020
	Application note	AWR1xx and AWR22xx Data Path Programmer’s Guide (Rev. A)	13 Feb 2020
	Application note	AWR2243 Bootloader Flow	13 Feb 2020
	User guide	AWRx Cascaded Radar RF Evaluation Module (MMWCAS-RF-EVM) User's Guide (Rev. A)	13 Feb 2020
	Application note	Interference Management Using AWR/IWR Devices	03 Jan 2020
	Design guide	Imaging Radar Using Cascaded mmWave Sensor Reference Design (Rev. A)	25 Jul 2019
	Technical article	The need for speed – The future of radar processing	17 Jul 2019
	Technical article	Imaging radar: one sensor to rule them all	09 Jul 2019
	Application note	AWR2243 Cascade (Rev. B)	16 May 2019
	Application note	MIMO Radar (Rev. A)	26 Jul 2018
	Application note	TI mmWave Radar sensor RF PCB Design, Manufacturing and Validation Guide	07 May 2018
	Application note	CMOS MMIC Ready for Road – A Technology Overview	28 Feb 2018
	White paper	Reliability advantages of TI flip-chip BGA packaging	25 Jan 2018
	Application note	XWR1xxx Power Management Optimizations - Low Cost LC Filter Solution	16 Oct 2017
	White paper	Moving from legacy 24GHz to state-of-the-art 77GHz radar	06 Oct 2017
	White paper	Cities grow smarter through innovative semiconductor technologies	07 Jul 2017
	Application note	System Performance Measurement With the mmWave Sensor	10 May 2017
	White paper	TI smart sensors enable automated driving	17 Apr 2017
	White paper	Using a complex-baseband architecture in FMCW radar systems	17 Apr 2017

Design & development

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Evaluation board

AWR2243BOOST — AWR2243 second-generation 76-GHz to 81-GHz high-performance automotive MMIC evaluation module

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.

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Evaluation board

DCA1000EVM — Real-time data-capture adapter for radar sensing evaluation module

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 (...)

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Evaluation board

MMWCAS-DSP-EVM — mmWave cascade imaging radar DSP evaluation module

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 (...)

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Evaluation board

MMWCAS-RF-EVM — mmWave cascade imaging radar RF evaluation module

The MMWCAS-RF evaluation module (EVM) is a sensing solution from TI implementing a four-device cascaded array of AWR1243 or AWR2243 devices. In this cascaded radar configuration, a single master device distributes a 20-GHz local-oscillator (LO) signal between all four devices, allowing these four (...)

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Firmware

MMWAVE-DFP — mmWave device firmware package (DFP)

mmWave –DFP is a device firmware package for TI’s 77GHz RF transceiver devices (AWR1243, AWR2243). This package provides firmware/ROM patches and API that provides seamless control and configuration for the RF operation in real-time from an external host device as well as allow periodic (...)

IDE, configuration, compiler or debugger

MMWAVE-STUDIO — mmWave studio

mmWave Studio is a collection of tools that enhance the evaluation of TI mmWave sensors. These easy-to-use tools provide capability to evaluate and prototype chirp designs and experiment with the out-of-the-box demo. The tools are hosted directly on TI.com and enable interaction with the mmWave (...)

Software programming tool

UNIFLASH — UniFlash stand-alone flash tool for microcontrollers, Sitara™; processors and SimpleLink™

Supported devices: CC13xx, CC25xx, CC26xx, CC3x20, CC3x30, CC3x35, Tiva, C2000, MSP43x, Hercules, PGA9xx, IWR12xx, IWR14xx, IWR16xx, IWR18xx , IWR68xx, AWR12xx, AWR14xx, AWR16xx, AWR18xx. Command line only: AM335x, AM437x, AM571x, AM572x, AM574x, AM65XX, K2G

CCS Uniflash is a standalone tool used to (...)

Simulation model

AWR2243 IBIS Model

SPRM754.ZIP (1055 KB) - IBIS Model

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Simulation model

AWR2243 BSDL Model

SPRM755.ZIP (1 KB) - BSDL Model

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Design tool

MMWAVE-3P-SEARCH — mmWave radar sensors third-party search tool

TI has partnered with companies to offer a wide range of solutions using TI mmWave radar sensors and related services. These companies can accelerate your path to production using mmWave radar. Download this search tool to quickly browse our third-party solutions and find the right third-party to (...)

Schematic

AWR2243 Checklist for Schematic Review, Layout Review, Bringup/Wakeup

SPRR419.ZIP (799 KB)

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Reference designs

TIDEP-01012 — Imaging radar using cascaded mmWave sensor reference design

The cascade development kit has two main use cases:

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 (...)