Quick Start Guide Radar GUI Distance2Go

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Quick Start Guide

Demo Distance2Go

September 2017

Table of Contents

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

Table of Contents

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

Hardware Description

Pin Header

Pin Header X2 REF

40MHz Fractional–N

PLL

P-MOS

Switch Baseband Amplification

Section

BGT24MTR11

24GHz RADAR MMIC

Breakable

Debugger

Board

36mm 14mm

45mm

Micro-USB

Board Views – Front and Back

Table of Contents

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

Tools Installation

1. XMC Flasher

2. XMC 4200 Serial Port Drivers

1. Radar GUI

1. DAVE

2. Segger J-Link

Firmware Development Tools

Flashing Tools

Visualization Tool

Tools Installation

1. XMC Flasher

2. XMC 4200 Serial Port Drivers

1. Radar GUI

1. DAVE

2. Segger J-Link

Firmware Development Tools

Flashing Tools

Visualization Tool

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-on-

arm-registered-cortex-registered-m/xmc-development-tools-software-tools-and-partner/xmc-

programming-tools-from-infineon/channel.html?channel=5546d462557e6e890155a0532c605bfe

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

Flashing Tools

1. XMC Flasher

Note: Might need to install Java (32-bit or 64-bit) to run the XMCFlasher.jar file.

–https://java.com/en/download/

Flashing Tools

2. XMC4200 Serial Port Drivers

›If you are plugging in the XMC4200 for the first time into your PC/laptop, you

will receive an error.

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

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”

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”

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”.

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.

›Note down the COM port to which the board is connected. This will be helpful for

working with the software later.

Tools Installation

1. XMC Flasher

2. XMC 4200 Serial Port Drivers

1. Radar GUI

1. DAVE

2. Segger J-Link

Firmware Development Tools

Flashing Tools

Visualization Tool

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.

Visualization Tools

1. Radar GUI

4. Click on the Deneon link after installation on your Desktop.

5. 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.

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.

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.

Visualization Tools

1. Radar GUI

Go through the different sections of this Radar GUI help.

Tools Installation

1. XMC Flasher

2. XMC 4200 serial port drivers

1. Radar GUI

1. DAVE

2. Segger J-Link

Firmware Development Tools

Flashing Tools

Visualization Tool

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.

2. 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!

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

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)

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”.

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”.

Table of Contents

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Breakable Debugger Module

Main D2G Module

USB No. 2

USB No. 1

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Firmware flash

1. Only connect USB to Debugger module

–To flash the Firmware

USB No. 2

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

Table of Contents

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Overview

Two ways to proceed from this step to flash the firmware:

1. XMC Flasher

2. Dave Project

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

Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview

Via XMC Flasher cont’d

2. Select the Device name form new window opened (XMC4200-256), then click

‘OK’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Building, Flashing and Debugging Overview

Via XMC Flasher cont’d

Congrats! You have successfully flashed the firmware using XMC Flasher.

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Overview

Two ways to proceed from this step to flash the firmware;

1. XMC Flasher

2. Dave Project

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

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

Building, Flashing and Debugging

DAVE Project

c. Check “Copy Projects Into Workspace”

d. Select “Browse” beside “Select Root Directory”

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

Building, Flashing and Debugging

DAVE Project cont’d

e. The Project File should appear under Project List. Press

‘Finish’.

f. Check ‘Copy Projects Into Workspace’

Building, Flashing and Debugging

DAVE Project cont’d

›The following should appear. Expand the ‘C/C++ Projects’ dropdown

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’

Building, Flashing and Debugging

DAVE Project cont’d

Confirm successfully built by looking in the console

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’

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.

Building, Flashing and Debugging

DAVE Project cont’d

Click on the ‘Debug’ button to flash and debug the DAVE project.

Table of Contents

Hardware Description

Tools Installation

Demo Distance2Go USB Connections

Building, Flashing and Debugging

Radar GUI

1. Click on the Deneon link on your Desktop.

2. Click start button in radar GUI tab

References

›Infineon BGT24MTR11 – 24Ghz radar IC – Datasheet

–https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-BGT24MTR11-DS-v03_01-

EN.pdf?fileId=5546d46256fb43b301576b97728c07f5

›Infineon XMC4200 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M4 Microcontroller - Datasheet

–https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-XMC4100_XMC4200-DS-v01_03-

EN.pdf?fileId=db3a30433afc7e3e013b3cf9b2816573

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