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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. To save the raw data in real-time to a storage
device, it requires an interface with very high BW capability. On TDA2x, PCIe
interface can provide maximum 5Gbps BW per lane with total of 2 lanes. Using 2-
lane PCIe interface on TDA2x to connect to a SSD storage device, it is sufficient to
achieve real-time data acquisition for 4-chip cascade radar use case.
1.1
Block Diagram
The data acquisition tool implements the data scheme as shown in the following
block diagram.
4x
AWR1243
Cascade RF
Board
Eth
TDA2x
SPI
GPIO
PCIe
x2
CSI-2
SSD Hard Drive
Use SCP (Secure
Copy) to transfer
files from EVM to PC
over Ethernet
