This version (17 Mar 2021 15:37) was approved by Antoniu Miclaus.The Previously approved version (15 Mar 2021 13:30) is available.
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ADF5902 - No-OS Driver
Supported Devices
Evaluation Boards
Overview
The ADF5902 is a 24 GHz transmitter (Tx) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with an on-chip, 24 GHz voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The VCO features a fractional-N frequency synthesizer with waveform generation capability with programmable grid array (PGA) and dual transmitter channels for radar systems. The on-chip, 24 GHz VCO generates the 24 GHz signal for the two transmitter channels and the local oscillator (LO) output. Each transmitter channel contains a power control circuit. There is also an on-chip temperature sensor. Control of all the on-chip registers is through a simple, 4-wire serial peripheral interface (SPI).
Applications:
- Automotive radars
- Industrial radars
- Microwave radar sensors
Driver Description
The driver contains two parts:
- The driver for the ADF5902 part, which may be used, without modifications, with any microcontroller.
- The Communication Drivers, where the specific communication functions for the desired type of processor and communication protocol have to be implemented. This driver implements the communication with the device and hides the actual details of the communication protocol to the ADI driver.
The Communication Driver has a standard interface, so the ADF5902 driver can be used exactly as it is provided.
the Communication Drivers must include two things: SPI transmission methods and GPIO control methods.
For the SPI method, the ADF5902 driver calls three functions:
- spi_init() - initializes the SPI communication peripheral.
- spi_remove() – frees memory allocated by the SPI communication driver.
- spi_write_and_read() – conduct information transfer with the device.
For the GPIO control methods, the ADF5902 driver calls three functions:
- gpio_get() - initialize GPIO peripheral and allocate memory for one GPIO control.
- gpio_remove() - frees memory allocated by the GPIO control driver.
- gpio_direction_input() - set GPIO as input.
Code Documentation
Source code documentation for the driver is automatically generated using the Doxygen tool and it is available at:
Initialization example
Downloads
resources/tools-software/uc-drivers/adf5902.txt · Last modified: 17 Mar 2021 15:37 by Antoniu Miclaus