How to get start with DEMO Board BGT60LTR11AIP
Hi everyone I'm Nichollas Tambalo, today my friends Marco Queroz, Flavio Batista and I will teach you How to get start with DEMO Board BGT60LTR11AIP from Infineon. Lets go!
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Demo PN: DEMO BGT60LTR11AIP https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/evaluation-boards/demo-bgt60ltr11aip/
Item PN: BGT60LTR11AIP https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/sensor/radar-sensors/radar-sensors-for-iot/60ghz-radar/bgt60ltr11aip/
1. Download and install INFINEON TOOLBOX, also called INFINEON DEVELOPER CENTER LAUNCHER (https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/design-support/tools/utilities/infineon-developer-center-idc-launcher/?redirId=160101). Bellow you can see all steps on site to do it.
- a. If you don't have registered on MyInfienon yet, you must have do it to access all the tools you need or for make a future project.
- b. Download and install the LAUNCHER for your OS (my Windows: Version 2021.1.1 – most recent)
- c. You must to log using your MyInfineon account in this tool. Then, find the tool to our board, once this software is a "central" to all Infineon product DEMOS and a lot more. Like the image bellow write in search site the item PN (BGT60LTR11AIP) and install it tool.
- d. After installed, will open a page in your web browser showing "Get Started" steps for our DEMO BGT60LTR11AIP board, among other interesting information. ATENTION ISN'T IN WEB, it point to your computer, on was installed.
2) Doing the Getting Started step:
- a. Step 1 – The board
- b. Step 2 – Open the INFINEON TOOLBOX or, using with it new name, DEVELOPER CENTER LAUNCH (already must been open). Is required that download document package in DOWNLOAD
Note: as the page maybe been opened, you have to download the archive package clicking at the button(Like the image bellow), it are above the Getting Started steps.
- c. Step 3 - Connect the board on PC
- d. Step 4 – Radar GUI
Open INFINEON TOOLBOX and select Radar GUI in “MyTools” (installed at step 1.c)
Be sure that the search bar are empty, that it will show you all tools you downloaded in “DEVELOPER CENTER”, this is a simple tip but if you don't pay attention maybe it could give you a great headache.
Click in connect, whether it don't initiate. Now its connected and working:
3) Board and GUI Functioning:
- a. I faced some connection stability problems between board and GUI. At first I thought it was my USB cable that had the connectors frayed, but wasn't it, even though every time disconnecting and connecting the driver on PC two actions was necessary.
i. Update the board MCU7 firmware (the Radar's BGT60LTR11AIP mother board) you must go at “Device>>Flash Firmware”
Downloaded the most recently version for Infineon programs, the application already point to most recently firmware version available, so now just click on “Flash Firmware”.
ii. If you get a "stable" connection and can go do the update, will appear the window below with mother board model (MCU7), the device that stay in it (BGT60LTR11AIP), and will be selected the right firmware to do the upload to board. Now you have to just click in “Update Firmware”, as the image below:
iii. In case the GUI connection don't been enough stable for the process. With the mother board recognized in the system as a “COMx” in device manager:
You can upload, without initiate an acquisition to RadarGUI, with it desconected of the board. Follow the same, but now you have to select the sites to do the upload correctly.
Once our item BGT60LTR11AIP selected in “Select Device”, all the other sites are automatically full fill, in this case:
iv. After this FW update, its necessary restart your machine. And then your connection stay stable.
