DEMO BGT60UTR11AIP Getting started with the XENSIV™ BGT60UTR11AIP 60 GHz radar sensor FMCW demo board
This demo board features Infineon’s 60GHz XENSIV™ radar sensor BGT60UTR11AIP. It consists of a Radar Baseboard MCU7 Plus and a BGT60UTR11AIP sensor shield. The board can be used for product feature evaluations, fast prototyping and radar algorithm development with the BGT60UTR11AIP. The BGT60UTR11AIP MMIC has integrated antennas and is equipped with one transmit and one receive antenna. With its compact size of only 16 mm² and extremely high FMCW performance (5.6 GHz bandwidth), this radar sensor is suitable for a wide range of applications.
The DEMO BGT60UTR11AIP board is supported by our Radar Development Kit (RDK), which can be downloaded from the Infineon Developer Center (IDC). It contains the Radar Fusion GUI for an instant display of the radar signals as well as predefined applications such as presence detection or distance measurement. For further development of application specific radar algorithms C, C++, Python and MATLAB interfaces are provided.
Summary of Features
BGT60UTR11AIP shield:
- 19 mm x 12.7 mm small form factor
- Digital SPI interface for configuration and data transfer to an MCU
- Standard FR4 laminate
- Castellated holes on the PCB edges for additional signal access
- MCU-controllable LED on board indicating radar sensor status
Radar Baseboard MCU7 Plus:
- 59.0 mm x 25.4 mm size
- Can perform radar data processing Arm Cortex-M7 processor or forward the sensor data to an USB interface or an Arduino MKR interface
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface
- Operates with Radar Development Kit and Radar Fusion GUI
Benefits
- Flexible platform selection
- Variable connector options, and option to solder onto other PCBs
- Highly flexible configuration on the FMCW modulation
- Advanced functionalities by SPI configuration or further signal processing
- Power consumption can be optimized according to the radar use case
Potential Applications
- Smart building devices such as door locks, smart doorbells and air conditioners
- Smart home devices such as smart speakers and thermostats
- Smart appliances such as refrigerators and kitchen machines
- Healthcare devices such as baby monitors and sleep tracker
- Service robots such as vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers
- Security devices such as motion detectors and IP cameras
- Wearables such as headphones and smartwatches
- TVs and notebooks
