Packaging information
| Package | Pins FCCSP (ABL) | 161 |
| Operating temperature range (°C) -40 to 125 |
| Package qty | Carrier 176 | JEDEC TRAY (10+1) |
Features for the AWR1443
- FMCW transceiver
- Integrated PLL, transmitter, receiver, Baseband, and ADC
- 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:
- –95 dBc/Hz (76 to 77 GHz)
- –93 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 process 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 (Controller and target 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
- Device 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
- Operating Conditions
- Junction temp range: –40°C to 125°C
Description for the AWR1443
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 ADC 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