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Texas Instruments MMWCAS-RF-EVM AWRx Evaluation Module (EVM)

Texas Instruments MMWCAS-RF-EVM AWRx Cascaded Radar RF Evaluation Module (EVM) implements a 4-device, cascaded array of AWRx mmWave devices. This configuration allows a single master device to distribute a 20GHz LO signal between all 4 devices, enabling these devices to operate as a single RF transceiver. This provides support for up to 12 TX and 16 RX antenna elements.

In TX beam-forming, beam-steering, and MIMO/SIMO use the larger number of antenna elements permits higher SNR and higher angular resolution compared to a single-device system. The Texas Instruments MMWCAS-RF-EVM AWRx Cascaded Radar RF Evaluation Module (EVM) interfaces to a companion TI TDA2x based Host/Data Capture board that is responsible for controlling the AWRx devices and receiving captured IF ADC samples. The TI TDA2x Host/Data Capture board includes SSD storage for supporting longer term data capture scenarios and 1 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for control and offloading captured data.

The TI MMWCAS-RF-EVM is supported by standard mmWave tools and software, including mmWave Studio (MMWAVE-STUDIO) and the mmWave device firmware package (MMWAVE-DFP).

The Cascade Radar evaluation board, when combined with a compatible host/data capture board, contains everything needed to start evaluating a single-device, or 2-device, 3-device or 4-device cascaded radar solution.