A111 Breakout Board

Brand / Manufacturer

Spark X

Product Description

Product Description:

Does your project require high-precision, cutting-edge distance measurement? Or maybe speed-, motion-, or gesture-sensing? We're not talking about simple ultrasonic, or even infrared, sensors here, but 60GHz radar! Well say hello to our tiny, pulsed-radar friend: the Acconeer A111.

The A111 is a single-chip solution for pulsed coherent radar (PCR). It comes complete with integrated antennae and an SPI interface capable of clock speeds of up to 50MHz. The A111's primary use case is distance-sensing, but it also supports applications in gesture-, motion-, material-, and speed-detection. It can see objects at distances of up to two meters.

Our breakout board for the A111 includes a 1.8V regulator, voltage-level translation between 1.8V and either 3.3V or 5V, and, of course, it breaks out all pins of the pulsed radar sensor to both 0.1-inch and Raspberry Pi-friendly headers.

The breakout board is primarily designed to interface directly with a Raspberry Pi – Acconeer’s SDK currently only supports ARMv7’s (e.g. a Pi) and ARM Cortex-M4’s (e.g. the nRF52832). Check out our Using the A111 Pulsed Radar Breakout tutorial, which explains how to use the sensor with a Raspberry Pi.

Includes:

• A111 Breakout Board
• 26-pin (2x13) female header

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

Documentation: 

• GitHub Repository

Unit Deliverable

1 X A111 Breakout Board, 1 X 26-pin (2x13) female header

Unit Price

$59.94

Availability

Not available / campaign Funded, end date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:38:00 PDT

Lead Time

14 Days after campaign end date