mmWave Solution bridges Hardware & Software World together with Simplicity
Joybien Batman BM601 mmWave EVM Kit is a Texas Instruments (TI) IWR1843 ASIC based millimeter-wave (mmWave) Kit with Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar technology capable of operation in the 76GHz to 81GHz band with up to 4 GHz continuous chirp, using 3 Transmission Antennas and 4 Receiving Antennas, for sensing target object’s range, velocity, and angle parameters.
Batman BM601 mmWave EVM Kit is an extremely light and compact mmWave Module with low-power, self-monitored, ultra-accurate, and lighting condition independent versatilities for various applications including: Education, Engineering, Science, Industrial, Medical, and Business & Consumer.
Applications
- Education’s Practical Radar Introduction
- Engineering & Science’s Motion Detection, Displacement, etc.
- Industrial sensor for Displacement & Safe Guard, Factory Automation, Robotics, etc.
- Building Automation sensor for Occupancy Detection, Proximity & Position sensing, People Counting, Security and Surveillance
- Business’ Traffic Monitoring, and Proximity Advertisement
Traffic Monitoring Detection (TMD)
For detecting moving objects (such as vehicles) in 5m ~ 50m with FOV of approx. +/- 54 degrees with Position X&Y, Velocity X&Y info. And based on the detected data, a programmer may write a program to define virtual Zones, for mapping objects (vehicles) moving in and out of certain Zones for traffic monitoring applications.
| Operating Frequency | - 76GHz to 81GHz Coverage
with 4GHz continuous bandwidth
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| Antenna | 3 Tx and 4 Rx with:
TX Power: 12 dBm
RX Noise Figure: 14 dB(76GHz ~ 77GHz) / 15 dB(77GHz ~ 81GHz)
Phase noise at 1MHz:–95 (76GHz ~ 77GHz) / –93 (77GHz ~ 81GHz)
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| Processors | ARM R4F based MCU, and C674x DSP
for FMCW signal processing |
| On-Chip Memory | |
| Internal Memories | |
| Input Power | |
Specifications mmWave Sensor Evaluation Module
| mmWave ASIC | - TI IWR6843 Single Chip mmWave Sensor
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| - Integrated PLL, Transmitter, Receiver, Baseband, and A2D
- 76GHz to 81GHz Coverage With 4GHz Continuous Bandwidth
- Four Receive Channels
- Three Transmit Channels
- Ultra-Accurate Chirp Engine Based on Fractional-N PLL
- TX Power: 12 dBm
- RX Noise Figure: 14 dB(76GHz ~ 77GHz) / 15 dB(77GHz ~ 81GHz)
- Phase Noise at 1 MHz: –95 (76GHz ~ 77GHz) / –93 (77GHz ~ 81GHz)
- Antenna Type : ISK Antenna
- Max real sampling rate: 25 Msps
- Max complex sampling rate :12.5 Msps
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| Built-in Calibration and Self-Test (Monitoring) | - ARM® Cortex® -R4F-Based Radio Control System
- Built-in Firmware (ROM)
- Self-calibrating System Across Frequency and Temperature
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| DSP | - C674x DSP for Advanced Signal Processing
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| On-Chip Memory | |
| MCU | - ARM R4F Microcontroller for Object Detection, and Interface Control
- Joybien mmWave Protocol (Per configuration)
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| I/O | - UART x 2
- GPIO x 2(GPIO_31,GPIO_32)
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| Power Management | - Built-in LDO Network for Enhanced PSRR
- I/Os Support Dual Voltage 3.3 V
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| Antenna Orientation | - 4 receive(RX) 3 transmit (TX) antenna with 120° azimuth field of view (FoV) and 40° elevation FoV
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| Input Power | |
Operating Temperature
& Humidity | - 0° to 40° degree Celsius
- 10 ~ 85% Non-Condensing
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| Dimensions & Weight | - 70.2mm x 45.6mm x 9mm ; 16 grams net
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Appendix: Joybien mmWave EVM Kit Application Solution Selection
(BM601-TMD)
Traffic Monitoring Detection | For detecting moving objects (such as vehicles) in 5m ~ 50m with FOV of approx. +/- 54 degrees with Position X&Y, Velocity X&Y info. And based on the detected data, a programmer may write a program to define virtual Zones, for mapping objects (vehicles) moving in and out of certain Zones for traffic monitoring applications. |