SparkFun Pulsed Radar Breakout - A111

Description

SparkFun Pulsed Radar Breakout for the A111 includes a 1.8V regulator, voltage-level translation, and it breaks out all the pins of the pulsed radar sensor to both 0.1-inch and Raspberry Pi-friendly headers. The Pulsed Radar Breakout is designed to sit directly on top of a Raspberry Pi but it doesn't span all 40 (2x20) pins of a Raspberry Pi B+ (or later), but the 26-pin -- 2x13 -- header should be compatible with any Pi. However, we have intentionally left the 2x13 header separated from the breakout in case you wanted to manually wire it to another an ARMv7 or ARM Cortex-M4 platform (since the closed-source A111 SDK currently only supports these architectures).

Acconeer has developed a visualization tool written in Python that demonstrates data collection in real time. It's called the Acconeer Exploration Tool and is an incredible resource when first starting out with the A111 Pulsed Radar. As an example it will graph distance or presence sensing, giving you a count of the number of sweeps, which communication port (SPI or I2C) data is being sent through, and much much more. The tool supports both Windows and Linux and requires Python version 3.6 or later. This tool is available through their Github Repository, go on over a take a look!

Inclusions

• 1x SparkFun Pulsed Radar Breakout Board - A111
• 1x Female Header - 26-pin (2x13)

Features

• 60 GHz Pulsed Coherent Radar (PCR) sensor
• Integrated antenna
• Measurement distance up to 2m
• Accuracy down to mm-range
• SPI interface -- up to 50MHz SPI clock support
• All SPI pins broken out
• On-board 1.8V regulator
• 1.8V level translation to any voltage between 1.8V-5V

The A111 was designed to work with an ARMv7 to work at a minimum. We were able to get the sensor working on the Raspberry Pi 3, 3B+, and 4.

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