Provides an exceptional level of integration capabilities for low-power, ultra-precision radar systems

Mouser Electronics (hereinafter Mouser) expands its automotive portfolio with Texas Instruments (hereinafter TI) radar sensors.

Mouser announced on the 5th that it is supplying TI's AWR1843AOP automotive radar sensor product.

The AAWR1843AOP provides engineers with an exceptional level of integration for low-power, self-monitoring, ultra-precision radar systems used in the automotive sector in an ultra-compact form factor.

This sensor is an antenna-on-package (AOP) device that operates in the 76–81 GHz band.

Built on TI's low-power 45nm RFCMOS process, the AWR1843AOP integrates a DSP subsystem that combines a high-performance C674x DSP for radar signal processing with a BIST processor subsystem responsible for radio configuration, control, and calibration, and a user-programmable Arm® Cortex®-R4F processor for automotive interfaces.

The Hardware Accelerator (HWA) block of the AWR1843AOP can perform radar processing and offload the DSP to execute higher-level algorithms.

Various sensor applications such as door opening, parking, blind spot, and lane change applications can be used with simple programming model changes, and dynamic reconfiguration for multi-mode sensor implementation is possible.

In addition, this device is provided as a complete platform solution including reference hardware design, software drivers, sample configurations, API guides, and user documentation.

AWR1843AOP is supported by the TI AWR1843AOPEVM evaluation module, which is also available for purchase at Mouser Electronics.

AWR1843AOPEVM is an easy-to-use platform for evaluating the AWR1843AOP radar sensor and can be directly connected to the TI MMWAVEICBOOST and DCA1000EVM development kit (sold separately), allowing designers to develop software for on-chip C67x DSP cores and low-power Arm® Cortex®-R4F processors.