The IWR6843 is an integrated single chip mmWave sensor based on FMCW radar technology capable of operation in the 60-GHz to 64-GHz band. It is built with TI’s low power 45-nm RFCMOS process and enables unprecedented levels of integration in an extremely small form factor. The IWR6843 is an ideal solution for low power, self-monitored, ultra-accurate radar systems in the industrial space.

Features:

• FMCW Transceiver
  • Integrated PLL, Transmitter, Receiver, Baseband, and A2D
  • 60- to 64-GHz Coverage With 4-GHz Continuous Bandwidth
  • Four Receive Channels
  • Three Transmit Channels
  • Ultra-Accurate Chirp Engine Based on Fractional-N PLL
  • TX Power: 10 dBm
  • RX Noise Figure:
    • 14 dB
  • Phase Noise at 1 MHz:
    • –92 dBc/Hz
• Built-in Calibration and Self-Test
  • ARM^® Cortex^®-R4F-Based Radio Control System
  • Built-in Firmware (ROM)
  • Self-calibrating System Across Frequency and Temperature
• C674x DSP for Advanced Signal Processing
• Hardware Accelerator for FFT, Filtering, and CFAR Processing
• ARM R4F Microcontroller for Object Detection, and Interface Control
  • Supports Autonomous Mode (Loading User Application from QSPI Flash Memory)
• Internal Memory with ECC
  • 1.75 MB, Divided into MSS Program RAM (512 KB), MSS Data RAM (192 KB), DSP L1 RAM (64KB) and L2 RAM (256 KB), and L3 Radar Data Cube Ram (768 KB)
  • Technical Reference Manual Includes Allowed Size Modifications
• Other Interfaces Available to User Application
  • Up to 6 ADC Channels (Low Sample Rate Monitoring)
  • Up to 2 SPI Ports
  • Up to 2 UARTs
  • 1 CAN-FD Interface
  • I2C
  • GPIOs
  • 2 Lane LVDS Interface for Raw ADC Data and Debug Instrumentation
• SIL-2 Targeted
• Power Management
  • Built-in LDO Network for Enhanced PSRR
  • I/Os Support Dual Voltage 3.3 V/1.8 V
• Clock Source
  • 40.0 MHz Crystal with Internal Oscillator
  • Supports External Oscillator at 40 MHz
  • Supports Externally Driven Clock (Square/Sine) at 40 MHz
• Easy Hardware Design
  • 0.65-mm Pitch, 161-Pin 10.4 mm × 10.4 mm Flip Chip BGA Package for Easy Assembly and Low-Cost PCB Design
  • Small Solution Size
• Operating Conditions:
  • Junction Temperature Range of –40ºC to 105ºC