SWRS273D November   2021  – September 2024 AWR2944

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  1.   1
  2. 1 Features
  3. 2 Applications
  4. 3 Description
    1. 3.1 Functional Block Diagram
  5. 4 Device Comparison
    1. 4.1 Related Products
  6. 5 Pin Configurations and Functions
    1. 5.1 Pin Diagram
    2. 5.2 Pin Attributes
    3. 5.3 Signal Descriptions - Digital
    4. 5.4 Signal Descriptions - Analog
  7. 6 Specifications
    1. 6.1  Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 6.2  ESD Ratings
    3. 6.3  Power-On Hours (POH)
    4. 6.4  Recommended Operating Conditions
    5. 6.5  VPP Specifications for One-Time Programmable (OTP) eFuses
      1. 6.5.1 Recommended Operating Conditions for OTP eFuse Programming
      2. 6.5.2 Hardware Requirements
      3. 6.5.3 Impact to Your Hardware Warranty
    6. 6.6  Power Supply Specifications
    7. 6.7  Power Consumption Summary
    8. 6.8  RF Specifications
    9. 6.9  Thermal Resistance Characteristics
    10. 6.10 Power Supply Sequencing and Reset Timing
    11. 6.11 Input Clocks and Oscillators
      1. 6.11.1 Clock Specifications
    12. 6.12 Peripheral Information
      1. 6.12.1  QSPI Flash Memory Peripheral
        1. 6.12.1.1 QSPI Timing Conditions
        2. 6.12.1.2 QSPI Timing Requirements #GUID-CD30070D-F132-4A2C-92CD-5AA96AE70B94/GUID-97D19708-D87E-443B-9ADF-1760CFEF6F4C #GUID-CD30070D-F132-4A2C-92CD-5AA96AE70B94/GUID-0A61EEC9-2B95-4C27-B219-18D27C8F9430
        3. 6.12.1.3 QSPI Switching Characteristics #GUID-20B35D26-AFE6-451C-B9E9-B3F2FA08097C/T4362547-64 #GUID-20B35D26-AFE6-451C-B9E9-B3F2FA08097C/T4362547-65
      2. 6.12.2  Multibuffered / Standard Serial Peripheral Interface (MibSPI)
        1. 6.12.2.1 MibSPI Peripheral Description
        2. 6.12.2.2 MibSPI Transmit and Receive RAM Organization
          1. 6.12.2.2.1 SPI Timing Conditions
          2. 6.12.2.2.2 SPI Controller Mode Switching Parameters (CLOCK PHASE = 0, SPICLK = output, SPISIMO = output, and SPISOMI = input) #GUID-20BA2ACF-4FC2-43F6-960F-1A4CA56E65A6/T4362547-236 #GUID-20BA2ACF-4FC2-43F6-960F-1A4CA56E65A6/T4362547-237 #GUID-20BA2ACF-4FC2-43F6-960F-1A4CA56E65A6/T4362547-238
          3. 6.12.2.2.3 SPI Controller Mode Switching Parameters (CLOCK PHASE = 1, SPICLK = output, SPISIMO = output, and SPISOMI = input) #GUID-517E5284-3345-461F-B07F-EB95741B1272/T4362547-244 #GUID-517E5284-3345-461F-B07F-EB95741B1272/T4362547-245 #GUID-517E5284-3345-461F-B07F-EB95741B1272/T4362547-246
        3. 6.12.2.3 SPI Peripheral Mode I/O Timings
          1. 6.12.2.3.1 SPI Peripheral Mode Switching Parameters (SPICLK = input, SPISIMO = input, and SPISOMI = output) #GUID-5C88F9F6-787B-49E2-984F-02158AB0C326/T4362547-70 #GUID-5C88F9F6-787B-49E2-984F-02158AB0C326/T4362547-71 #GUID-5C88F9F6-787B-49E2-984F-02158AB0C326/T4362547-73
      3. 6.12.3  Ethernet Switch (RGMII/RMII/MII) Peripheral
        1. 6.12.3.1  RGMII Timing Conditions
        2. 6.12.3.2  RGMII Transmit Clock Switching Characteristics
        3. 6.12.3.3  RGMII Transmit Data and Control Switching Characteristics
        4. 6.12.3.4  RGMII Receive Clock Timing Requirements
        5. 6.12.3.5  RGMII Receive Data and Control Timing Requirements
        6. 6.12.3.6  RMII Transmit Clock Switching Characteristics
        7. 6.12.3.7  RMII Transmit Data and Control Switching Characteristics
        8. 6.12.3.8  RMII Receive Clock Timing Requirements
        9. 6.12.3.9  RMII Receive Data and Control Timing Requirements
        10. 6.12.3.10 MII Transmit Switching Characteristics
        11. 6.12.3.11 MII Receive Clock Timing Requirements
        12. 6.12.3.12 MII Receive Timing Requirements
        13. 6.12.3.13 MII Transmit Clock Timing Requirements
        14. 6.12.3.14 MDIO Interface Timings
      4. 6.12.4  LVDS/Aurora Instrumentation and Measurement Peripheral
        1. 6.12.4.1 LVDS Interface Configuration
        2. 6.12.4.2 LVDS Interface Timings
      5. 6.12.5  UART Peripheral
        1. 6.12.5.1 SCI Timing Requirements
      6. 6.12.6  Inter-Integrated Circuit Interface (I2C)
        1. 6.12.6.1 I2C Timing Requirements #GUID-437677C7-D935-4733-A64D-553EFECA73F7/T4362547-185
      7. 6.12.7  Controller Area Network - Flexible Data-rate (CAN-FD)
        1. 6.12.7.1 Dynamic Characteristics for the CAN-FD TX and RX Pins
      8. 6.12.8  CSI2 Receiver Peripheral
        1. 6.12.8.1 CSI2 Switching Characteristics
      9. 6.12.9  Enhanced Pulse-Width Modulator (ePWM)
      10. 6.12.10 General-Purpose Input/Output
        1. 6.12.10.1 Switching Characteristics for Output Timing versus Load Capacitance (CL) #GUID-46919170-3C9C-440C-879B-A7700B77517D/T4362547-45 #GUID-46919170-3C9C-440C-879B-A7700B77517D/T4362547-50
    13. 6.13 Emulation and Debug
      1. 6.13.1 Emulation and Debug Description
      2. 6.13.2 JTAG Interface
        1. 6.13.2.1 Timing Requirements for IEEE 1149.1 JTAG
        2. 6.13.2.2 Switching Characteristics for IEEE 1149.1 JTAG
      3. 6.13.3 ETM Trace Interface
        1. 6.13.3.1 ETM TRACE Timing Requirements
        2. 6.13.3.2 ETM TRACE Switching Characteristics
  8. 7 Detailed Description
    1. 7.1 Overview
    2. 7.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 7.3 Subsystems
      1. 7.3.1 RF and Analog Subsystem
        1. 7.3.1.1 RF Clock Subsystem
        2. 7.3.1.2 Transmit Subsystem
        3. 7.3.1.3 Receive Subsystem
      2. 7.3.2 Processor Subsystem
      3. 7.3.3 Automotive Interfaces
    4. 7.4 Other Subsystems
      1. 7.4.1 Hardware Accelerator Subsystem
      2. 7.4.2 Security – Hardware Security Module
      3. 7.4.3 ADC Channels (Service) for User Application
  9. 8 Monitoring and Diagnostics
    1. 8.1 Monitoring and Diagnostic Mechanisms
  10. 9 Applications, Implementation, and Layout
    1. 9.1 Application Information
    2. 9.2 Short and Medium Range Radar
    3. 9.3 Reference Schematic
  11. 10Device and Documentation Support
    1. 10.1 Device Support
    2. 10.2 Device Nomenclature
    3. 10.3 Tools and Software
    4. 10.4 Documentation support
    5. 10.5 Support Resources
    6. 10.6 Trademarks
    7. 10.7 Receiving Notification of Documentation Updates
    8. 10.8 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    9. 10.9 Glossary
  12. 11Revision History
  13. 12Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

3 Description

The AWR294x is a single-chip mmWave sensor composed of a FMCW transceiver, capable of operation in the 76 to 81GHz band, radar data processing elements, and peripherals for in-vehicle networking. The AWR294x is built with TI’s low-power 45nm RFCMOS process and enables unprecedented levels of integration in a small form factor and minimal BOM. The AWR294x is a device for low-power, self-monitored, ultra-accurate radar systems in the automotive space.

TI’s low-power 45nm RFCMOS process enables a monolithic implementation of a 3-4 TX, 4 RX system with integrated PLL, VCO, mixer, and baseband ADC. Integrated in the DSP subsystem (DSS), is TI's high-performance C66x DSP for radar signal processing. The device includes a Radio Processor Subsystem (RSS), which is responsible for radar front-end configuration, control, and calibration. Within the Main Subsystem (MSS), the device implements a user-programmable Arm Cortex-R5F processor allowing for custom control and automotive interface applications. The hardware accelerator block (HWA 2.1) supplements the DSS and MSS by offloading common radar processing such as FFT, constant false alarm rate (CFAR), scaling, and compression. This saves MIPS on the DSS and MSS, opening up resources for custom applications and higher-level algorithms.

A Hardware Security Module (HSM) is also provisioned in the device (available for only secure part variants). The HSM consists of a programmable Arm Cortex-M4 core and the necessary infrastructure to provide a secure zone of operation within the device.

Simple programming model changes can enable a wide variety of sensor implementation (Short, Mid, Long) with the possibility of dynamic reconfiguration for implementing a multimode sensor.

Additionally, the AWR294x is provided as a complete platform solution including TI hardware and software reference designs, software drivers, sample configurations, API guides, and user documentation.

Device Information
PART NUMBER PACKAGE(1) BODY SIZE (NOM) Device Variant
AWR2943ABGALTQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2943
AWR2943ABGALTRQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2943
AWR2943ABSALTRQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2943
AWR2944ABGALTQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944
AWR2944ABGALTRQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944
AWR2944ABSALTQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944
AWR2944ABSALTRQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944
AWR2944ALBGALTRQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944LC
AWR2944ALBSALTRQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944LC
AWR2944ALBGALTQ1 ALT (FCBGA, 266) 12mm × 12 mm AWR2944LC
(1) For more information, see Section 12, Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information.