Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry’s leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, is now stocking the AWRL1432 mmWave radar sensor from Texas Instruments. The integrated, single-chip mmWave sensor is based on frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar technology and delivers precise measurements with low power consumption. The AWRL1432 sensor is designed for self-monitored radar systems in automotive applications including kick-to-open, parking assist, blind spot detection, and door obstacle detection.
The TI AWRL1432 mmWave radar sensor, now available at Mouser, operates in the 76GHz to 81GHz frequency band with 5GHz continuous bandwidth. The AWRL1432 sensor is partitioned into four power domains: RF/analog subsystem, front-end controller subsystem (FECSS), application subsystem (APPSS), and hardware accelerator (HWA). The AWRL1432 has separate controls for each power domain, allowing each of the states to be turned on or off depending on the use case. The sensor can enter low-power modes such as sleep and deep sleep through clock gating and by turning off the internal IP blocks. Even in low-power states, the sensor retains some of its contents, such as the application image or RF profile, enabling the device to resume operation quickly.
The AWRL1432 mmWave Radar Sensor includes an Arm® M4F® core (160MHz) with a single-precision floating-point unit (FPU) for efficient signal control. The sensor also features a TI radar hardware accelerator (HWA 1.2) for processing tasks such as fast Fourier transform (FFT), log magnitude, and constant false alarm rate (CFAR) operations.
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