Radar toolbox version incompatible with long range people detection binary file

I have been trying to get the IWR6843ISK TI sensor to read data into matlab with the long range people detection binary flashed to the radar anntena chip so that it can read up to 100m. When using the function mmWaveRadar() I get the error that the binary files is verson 03.05.00.04 instead of 03.06.00.00 and is therefore incompatible. I was wondering if there is a past download of the add-on Radar Toolbox Support Package for Texas Instruments mmWave Radar Sensors that I can install that is compatible binary files verson 03.05.00.04?

[Akash Gopisetty]

Hi Nikolas - the first version of the Radar Toolbox Support Package for Texas Instruments mmWave Radar Sensors is from the MATLAB R2023b release and is compatible with MMWave SDK Version: "03.06.00.00" (which was the latest version back then). So there is no prior version of the support package. You might have to upgrade the SDK version you are working for MATLAB compatibility.

Answer 1

[Gayatri Menon]

Hi Nikolas,

To read point cloud or IQ data from a TI Radar in MATLAB, you need to flash the out-of-the-box demo binary in mmWave SDK onto the TI Radar. To do this,execute the following in MATLAB and follow the on-screen instructions to completion

mmWaveRadarSetup()

https://www.mathworks.com/help/radar/ref/mmwaveradarsetup.html

If you want to modify the radar parameters, you'll need to adjust them in the configuration file. This file can be created using the mmWave Demo Visualizer. Please follow the steps outlined in the documentation.

Once you have the configuration file, you can specify it with the following command:

tiradar = mmWaveRadar('TI IWR6843ISK');
tiradar.ConfigFile = "C:\Configs\xwr68xx_2Tx_BestRange_UpdateRate_10.cfg";

Hope this helps

Thanks

Gayatri