DWS3000 Eval Board Freezes

Wireless Connectivity Ultra-Wideband
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Hi community,

i’m using 4 DWS3000 Eval boards with Nucleo F103RB boards with the example librarys (one configured as tx_wait_resp and the other as rx_send_resp ) but keep having the same issues over and over also with the other ds_twr examples. The board freezes in the startup phase. I have to reset it many times to get them running.

Have you noticed the same issues?
What is the reason for that and what can I do to prevent it?

Thanks
David

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Also i recognized this strange behavior that it helped tilting the board to get them running. This is working for not only for one board but for every board, strange…

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DWS3000 Eval boards API examples targeted NUCLEO F429 (or nRF52840), but not NUCLEO F103R…

Also, API examples are for evaluation/understanding of how-to drive DW3000 chip using driver API. Examples are for point-to-point tests (i.e. for 2 boards), but not for 4 boards. You are operating in one air-space and if you are trying to run 4 boards with Simple examples, they would not know how to do that.
Simple API examples were not supposed to run on 4 boards at all… and if you want - that is your project, so you need to design how over-the-air interaction would look like, addressing, encryption, STS, etc. All of these require a fundamental understanding of how UWB operates - and supposed to be covered by Simple API. So start from small. Read all the documentation, all Notes in the example code. User Manual.
Regards

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Hey Alliv,
first of all thanks for your reply.
I know that the API is for NUCLEO F429 (or nRF52840) I ported all functions to the Nucleo F103RB and all examples are working except that it sometimes freezes in the beginning (i’m using the serial coomuncation to debug the boards). I just wanted to confirm that there is nobody that faces same issues when using the F429 Board so that I have to debug where this issue is coming from.

I also know that the examples are for point to point communcation, I already implemented a two anchor one tag communcation. With the information that I have 4 boards I wanted to let everybody know that I’m facing this issue on every board that I’m using right now - so a hardware issue should be not the problem.

Thanks in advance
David

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