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1 User's guide for mmWaveStudio mmWave Studio GUI This document outlines the mmWaveStudio Graphical User Interface details and instructions for software start up. Operating procedures for Radar API and Post-Processing utility is also explained briefly in this user s guide . Contents List of Figures .. 3 1. Introduction .. 6 2. mmWaveStudio Installation and Startup .. 6 Installation .. 6 Startup .. 7 USB Interface and Drivers .. 8 Using the DCA1000 EVM .. 10 Using DCA1000 CLI utility.

2 11 Updating the DCA1000 FPGA Binary .. 11 Raw ADC data capture .. 11 mmWaveStudio User Interface .. 12 Menu Bar .. 12 File Menu .. 12 View Menu .. 13 Tools Menu .. 13 ToolBars Menu .. 13 Window Menu .. 15 Help Menu .. 15 Radar API Window .. 15 Output Window .. 16 LUA Shell .. 17 Automation/Scripting .. 18 6. Radar API Tab Operations .. 18 Connection Tab .. 18 Board Control Operations .. 20 RS232 Operations .. 21 Firmware Download .. 21 SPI Connection & RF Power Up .. 23 Static Config Tab Operations.

3 23 8. data Config Tab Operations .. 24 9. Sensor Config Tab Operations .. 25 Profile Config .. 25 Profile Manager .. 25 2 mmWave Studio Users guide Copyright 2020, Texas Instruments Incorporated Chirp Config .. 26 Chirp manager .. 26 Frame Config .. 27 RegOp Tab .. 32 Register Operations Tab .. 32 Debug Signals .. 32 GPIO_0 .. 32 Continuous Streaming Tab Operations.

4 33 12. BPM Config Tab Operations .. 34 13. Advanced Frame Config Tab operations .. 35 14. Rampgen Timing Calculator Tab .. 35 15. Loopback Tab Operations .. 36 16. CalibConfig Tab Operations .. 37 Time Unit Config .. 37 RF Init Calibration Config .. 37 RunTime Calibration and Trigger Config .. 37 Time Unit Failure report .. 37 RF Init Calibration Summary Report .. 38 Runtime Calibration Report .. 38 Monitoring .. 38 Digital monitoring .. 38 Analog monitoring enables .. 39 TX monitoring.

5 39 RX monitoring .. 40 DCBIST monitoring .. 41 Async Event Report Format .. 42 Logging of Async events .. 42 Decoding the Reports .. 44 Example of Decoding the Reports .. 45 RX and TX gain LUT .. 47 19. Import / Export Tab Operations .. 49 GUI (Graphical User Interface) .. 49 Capture Setup file .. 49 mmWave Configuration File .. 50 Types of Waveform .. 50 Capture Setup JSON Operations .. 50 Import .. 50 Setup .. 51 mmWave Device JSON Operations .. 51 Import .. 51 Load .. 52 Configure Device.

6 52 Capturing Raw ADC data .. 53 Export .. 53 LUA API s for JSON Parser .. 55 Capture Setup API s .. 55 mmWave Configuration API s .. 55 3 mmWave Studio Users guide Copyright 2020, Texas Instruments Incorporated 20. Advanced chirp configuration tab .. 55 Filling the LUT .. 57 Saving the LUT .. 58 Loading the LUT .. 58 Configuring RadarSS with the filled LUT.

7 59 APIs sequences for various usecases .. 59 Configuration DCA1000 Capture .. 59 Configuration Monitoring & Calibration .. 60 Radar post 61 List of plots .. 63 Basic plots .. 63 CQ plots (chirp quality metrics) .. 66 Characterization plots .. 66 Channel select .. 67 Frame /Profile /Chirp sliders .. 68 Information sidebar .. 68 Programmed parameters .. 69 Calculated parameters .. 69 Detection results .. 70 Play .. 70 Miscellaneous 70 Detection .. 70 FFT processing 71 Miscellaneous.

8 71 Time domain 72 More miscellaneous options .. 72 Notes on Setting up PostProc for Characterization .. 72 Standalone processing (post processing done in a different session from configuration and ) .. 73 Post Processing of bin files using Matlab outside mmWaveStudio .. 74 Controlling mmWaveStudio from Matlab .. 75 24. Automation using 77 Sample Lua script for automation .. 77 Format of the raw captured file .. 78 Preliminaries .. 79 Notation .. 79 Sample Format .. 79 DCA1000 EVM capture format (xWR22xx complex, 4 channel, 4 lanes [Interleaved]).

9 79 DCA1000 EVM capture format (xWR22xx real, 4 channel, 4 lanes [Interleaved]) .. 79 List of Figures Figure mmWaveStudio startup error message .. 8 Figure Device Manager (Other Devices) .. 8 Figure FTDI driver update .. 9 Figure Device Manager (USB Serial Port) .. 9 Figure DCA1000 COM Ports .. 10 Figure XWR1xxx EVM USB Enumeration .. 10 Figure mmWaveStudio Main Window .. 12 4 mmWave Studio Users guide Copyright 2020, Texas Instruments Incorporated Figure Config ToolBar.

10 13 Figure Edit Button .. 14 Figure Button Config .. 14 Figure Edit User Defined Script .. 14 Figure Radar API Window .. 15 Figure Output Window Docking .. 16 Figure Output Window Log .. 17 Figure LUA Shell window .. 17 Figure Command creation .. 18 Figure LUA Script execution .. 18 Figure Connect Tab .. 19 Figure SOP Control .. 21 Figure Serial Port Control and selecting the COM port for RS232 operations .. 21 Figure Firmware Download .. 22 Figure Firmware Download Progress .. 22 Figure Static Config Tab.