Advice Needed : Do I Need to Do Some Kind of Production Test or Calibration During Mass Production

Hi there,

Would anyone give me a brief description of production tests?
Do I need to do calibrate and how?

Thank you and with my best.

This is a long topic with varied views and opinions.

Read this first:

https://www.decawave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/APS012_DW1000_Production_Tests.pdf

The above document presents an intensive and complex production test strategy which requires expensive equipment and development of automated processes.

I’m not necessarily of the opinion that is required, or even that it is better than some simpler methods. This is particularly true for the spectral test.

Read the above and then you can probably form a more specific question we can discuss.

Mike Ciholas, President, Ciholas, Inc
3700 Bell Road, Newburgh, IN 47630 USA
mikec@ciholas.com
+1 812 962 9408

Thank you Mciholas for sharing. Now I have an overview of the test procedure.

We are planning to buy module DWM1004C directly from Decawave, if it means all the test/calibrate procedure is already done by Decawave? So we don’t have to do full test again on our own production?

If you use the DWM1004C module in your design within the guidelines, and if you use Decawave’s supplied software for the module, then the calibrations are done with regards to UWB parameters from what I understand.

Mike Ciholas, President, Ciholas, Inc
3700 Bell Road, Newburgh, IN 47630 USA
mikec@ciholas.com
+1 812 962 9408