Quick Start Guide Radar GUI Distance2Go

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Quick Start Guide
Demo Distance2Go
September 2017

Table of Contents
1

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

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Table of Contents
1

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

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Hardware Description
Baseband Amplification
Section

Pin Header
X1

Breakable
Debugger
Board

45mm

BGT24MTR11
24GHz RADAR MMIC

P-MOS
Switch

Micro-USB

Pin Header X2

36mm
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REF Fractional–N
40MHz
PLL

14mm

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Board Views – Front and Back

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Table of Contents
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Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

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Tools Installation
Flashing Tools
1. XMC Flasher
2. XMC 4200 Serial Port Drivers
Visualization Tool
1. Radar GUI
Firmware Development Tools

1. DAVE
2. Segger J-Link

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Tools Installation
Flashing Tools
1. XMC Flasher
2. XMC 4200 Serial Port Drivers
Visualization Tool
1. Radar GUI
Firmware Development Tools

1. DAVE
2. Segger J-Link

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Flashing Tools
1. XMC Flasher
Installation Steps:
1. Download XMC Flasher .zip file from the following link
–

http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontroller/32-bit-industrial-microcontroller-based-onarm-registered-cortex-registered-m/xmc-development-tools-software-tools-and-partner/xmcprogramming-tools-from-infineon/channel.html?channel=5546d462557e6e890155a0532c605bfe

2. Extract the downloaded .zip file and run the XMCFlasher.jar file

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Flashing Tools
1. XMC Flasher
Note: Might need to install Java (32-bit or 64-bit) to run the XMCFlasher.jar file.
–

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https://java.com/en/download/

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Flashing Tools
2. XMC4200 Serial Port Drivers
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If you are plugging in the XMC4200 for the first time into your PC/laptop, you
will receive an error.

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XMC4200 serial drivers are part of deliverables, comes under the folder ‘Driver’.

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Flashing Tools
2. XMC4200 serial port drivers
Installation Steps:
1. Right click on “My Computer”
2. Click “Manage” and a Computer Management window will be opened.

3. Click on “Device Manager”

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Flashing Tools
2. XMC4200 Serial Port Drivers
4. Now connect the demo board to the computer
via USB and the board will be detected under
the “Other devices” category.
5. Right click on “Unknown Device”

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Flashing Tools
2. XMC4200 Serial Port Drivers
6. Click “Update Driver Software”
7. Select “Browse My Computer for Driver Software”.
8. Now browse to the directory where the drivers are stored (it’s part of deliverable
in our case under ‘Driver’ folder) and click “Next”.

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Flashing Tools
2. XMC4200 Serial Port Drivers
9. After successful installation, the board is listed under “Ports” category in “Device
Manager” tab of computer management window.
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Note down the COM port to which the board is connected. This will be helpful for
working with the software later.

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Tools Installation
Flashing Tools
1. XMC Flasher
2. XMC 4200 Serial Port Drivers
Visualization Tool
1. Radar GUI
Firmware Development Tools

1. DAVE
2. Segger J-Link

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Visualization Tools
1. Radar GUI
Installation Steps:
1. Download the latest version of Radar GUI.
– http://download.hitex.de/RadarGUI
2. Click on “I accept”.

3. Save and install the Deneon Radar GUI executable file
– Radar GUI is preinstalled in Deneon after installation
Note: The initial download page will change in the future, as soon as the IFX
webserver is available.
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Visualization Tools
1. Radar GUI
4.

Click on the Deneon link after installation on your Desktop.

If a new update is available for the Radar GUI, then please click on the green button
labeled “update” appeared right to the start button in the Radar GUI tab. After update,
Deneon will restart and then click “Start” button in the Radar GUI tab to run GUI.

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Visualization Tools
1. Radar GUI
6.

Radar GUI at the start checks the compatibility of firmware version running in the
connected device and will prompt by a message to follow the links to update the firmware.

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Visualization Tools
1. Radar GUI
Default layout of Radar GUI for D2G demo boards is depicted in the following picture. For
further help on Radar GUI please click on the help section as shown in the figure below.

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Visualization Tools
1. Radar GUI
Go through the different sections of this Radar GUI help.

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Tools Installation
Flashing Tools
1. XMC Flasher
2. XMC 4200 serial port drivers
Visualization Tool
1. Radar GUI
Firmware Development Tools

1. DAVE
2. Segger J-Link

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Firmware Development Tools
1. Installing DAVE
Installation Steps:
1.

If you have a previous version of DAVE installed, check your hard drive
location:
– C:\Users\”your login name”\Infineon\D_LibraryStore_4.1
– If this folder exists, rename or delete it.

Download the latest version of DAVE from

www.infineon.com/dave
– Scroll down to the “DAVETM Download” link.

Download can take up to 1 hour!

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Firmware Development Tools
1. Installing DAVE (cont´d)
3. Select either the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your
system (leave DAVETM SDK unchecked as it is not needed)
4. Fill out the form and you will get a personal download link

Download DAVETM Windows 32-bit

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Firmware Development Tools
1. Installing DAVE (cont´d)
5. Unzip the downloaded zip file on your hard drive
6. Depending on your PC, you may need to have administrator
access to install the software.

7. Start the executable and make sure to install DAVE, the Library
Store and SEGGER drivers (all boxes checked)

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Firmware Development Tools
2. Installing J-Link
8. Accept license agreement and keep clicking “Next” then click
“Finish”.
9. When the Segger JLINK installation starts, click “Next”.

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Firmware Development Tools
2. Installing J-Link (cont´d)
10. Keep clicking “Next”.
11. If something like the screen below appears, click “Select All” (if
it is not greyed out) and then “OK”.

12. Click “Finish”.

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Table of Contents
1

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

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Demo Distance2Go USB Connections
USB No. 2

Main D2G Module

Breakable Debugger Module

USB No. 1

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Demo Distance2Go USB Connections
Firmware flash

1. Only connect USB to Debugger module
– To flash the Firmware

USB No. 2

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Demo Distance2Go USB Connections
Radar GUI
2. Only connect USB to Main D2G module
– To use Radar GUI

Note: Firmware must be flashed beforehand otherwise flash it
using first connection scheme

USB No. 2

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Table of Contents
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Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
Overview
Two ways to proceed from this step to flash the firmware:
1. XMC Flasher
2. Dave Project

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
1. Open the XMC flasher .jar file and click on the connect button to select the
device name

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
2. Select the Device name form new window opened (XMC4200-256), then click
‘OK’.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
3. If connection is successful, then ‘Connection Status’ would be connected. You
can then see the ‘Unique Chip ID’ as well.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
4. After connection is done, select the .hex file (firmware is flashed through .hex
file) by clicking on Select File button.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
5. Navigate to the binary folder containing Radar_D2G_FMCW.hex file and select it.
6. Click on ‘Open’ in the dialogue box.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
7. Successful selection of hex file will list the name of .hex file under ‘Select File’
button.
8. Now click ‘Program’ button.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
9. SEGGER progress window will open. It will also verify if the .hex file is flashed or
not.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview
Via XMC Flasher cont’d
Congrats! You have successfully flashed the firmware using XMC Flasher.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
Overview
Two ways to proceed from this step to flash the firmware;
1. XMC Flasher
2. Dave Project

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project
1. Import/Open FW project in DAVE
2. Connect Distance2Go kit
3. Create Debug Configurations

– To start flashing and debugging within the DAVE project

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
1. Import/Open Distance2Go firmware project in DAVE
a. Navigate to File > Import
b. Infineon > DAVE Project

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project
c.

Check “Copy Projects Into Workspace”

Select “Browse” beside “Select Root Directory”

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project
d. Select ‘Distance2Go’ Folder from location where you have extracted the .zip file of DAVE
project. For example, here we have in the USB drive
INTENSO/All_Deliverables/Distance2Go

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
e. The Project File should appear under Project List. Press
‘Finish’.
f.

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Check ‘Copy Projects Into Workspace’

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
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The following should appear. Expand the ‘C/C++ Projects’ dropdown

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
There are two ways to build a project:
1. Build Active Project via toolbar button
2. Right-click on ‘Active Project’  ‘Build Project’

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
Confirm successfully built by looking in the console

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
In order to flash and debug the firmware in DAVE, need to follow these step.
1. Select the debug configurations by clicking on the drop down menu of
Debug button as shown in Figure below, i.e. ‘Debug’  ‘Debug
Configurations’

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
Following debug configurations are opened.
2. Double click on the ‘GDB SEGGER J-Link Debugging’ to create debug
configurations.

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Building, Flashing and Debugging
DAVE Project cont’d
Click on the ‘Debug’ button to flash and debug the DAVE project.

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Table of Contents
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Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

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Radar GUI
1. Click on the Deneon link on your Desktop.

2. Click start button in radar GUI tab

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References
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Infineon BGT24MTR11 – 24Ghz radar IC – Datasheet
– https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-BGT24MTR11-DS-v03_01EN.pdf?fileId=5546d46256fb43b301576b97728c07f5

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Infineon XMC4200 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M4 Microcontroller - Datasheet
– https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-XMC4100_XMC4200-DS-v01_03EN.pdf?fileId=db3a30433afc7e3e013b3cf9b2816573

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