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Texas Instruments Vision SDK Linux User Manual

Cascade radar data acquisition tool
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Vision SDK Linux
Cascade Radar Data Acquisition
Tool
User Guide
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  • Page 1 The furnishing of this documents is given for usage with Texas Instruments products only and does not give you any license to the intellectual property that might be contained within this document.
  • Page 2 IMPORTANT NOTICE Texas Instruments and its subsidiaries (TI) reserve the right to make changes to their products or to discontinue any product or service without notice, and advise customers to obtain the latest version of relevant information to verify, before placing orders, that information being relied on is current and complete. All products are sold subject to the terms and conditions of sale supplied at the time of order acknowledgment, including those pertaining to warranty, patent infringement, and limitation of liability.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ....................4 Block Diagram ....................4 Program Flow ....................5 Data Output Format ..................6 Requirements for Running Data Acquisition Tool ......... 7 Build Linux Vision SDK for Cascade Radar EVM ..........7 Build Linux Vision SDK for Cascade Radar EVM with Radar Studio ....7 Data Acquisition Tool ...................

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction This user guide provides details on how to build and utilize the data acquisition tool to capture raw data (ADC samples) from 4x AWR1243 Cascade Radar RF board with TDA2x Digital board. For 4x AWR1243 Cascade Radar, depending on the Radar configuration, the raw data throughput could be up to ~6 Gbps.

  • Page 5: Program Flow

    Program Flow The main component of Data acquisition Tool is DataCollect Link running on A15 in TDA2x. DataCollect Link implemented the program flow as shown in the following figure. DataCollect Link TaskMain CREATE DiskBucket Search for existing data DataCollect Link Object files under “/mnt/ssd”...

  • Page 6: Data Output Format

    Data Output Format Data Acquisition Tool will save 3 types of files to the SSD card.  Radar Configuration Files Radar Configuration files used for the acquiring data set will be copied to SSD as “bxxxx_cfg_00.txt” ~ “bxxx_cfg_03.txt”.  Data Files Data will be saved to a new file every 2GB as “bxxxx_data.bin”.

  • Page 7: Requirements For Running Data Acquisition Tool

    Requirements for Running Data Acquisition Tool It is important to make sure the required components are available before trying to use the data acquisition tool.  Hardware Requirements: 4-Chips AWR1243 Cascade Radar Board and TDA2xx Processing board Nvme M.2 PCIe SSD card (ex. Link) Windows or Ubuntu PC ...

  • Page 8: Data Acquisition Tool

    Data Acquisition Tool Before running data acquisition tool, the NVMe M.2 SSD card should be installed on the EVM as shown in the following figure. Remove the Cascade RF board first to have access to the SSD card slot on the TDA2x processing board. After installing SSD card, secure the RF board back to the connectors on the TDA2x processing board.
  • Page 9 2. Create “/mnt/ssd” folder and mount the partition on SSD for data storage to this folder. 3. Start Vision SDK Demo Application. $> cd /opt/vision_sdk $> source ./vision_sdk_load.sh $> ./apps.out 4. Select ‘6’ for Radar Usecases. 5. Select ‘2’ for Cascade Radar Capture + Data Acquisition. 6.

  • Page 10: Retrieve Data

    Retrieve Data 3 ways to retrieve the radar data collected in SSD card as the followings.  Use Linux PC (Ubuntu) – Preferred From EVM prompt, run “ifconfig” to obtain EVM IP address. Use SCP to transfer file to PC. ...

  • Page 11: Revision History

    Revision History Version Date Revision History Jan 3, 2019 First version Jun 6, 2019 Updated for radar studio usecase July 26, 2019 Updated for uboot patches ««« § »»» Page 11 of 11...

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