RMARKER (802.15.4 HRP UWB)

RMARKER is the location of the first chip after the SFD Start frame delimiter. When playing back from a recording, RMARKER is expressed relative to the beginning of the recording. When acquiring data from hardware, RMARKER is expressed relative to the trigger point.

RMARKER is useful for calculating T_reply times in a Time of Flight (TOF) measurement. To do this:

  1. Make a Recording that contains the frames you wish to measure.
  2. Configure a Magnitude Playback Trigger in the VSA software to trigger at the beginning of each frame. You will need to use Trigger Holdoff to prevent triggering in the middle of a frame.
  3. Set Sweep Mode to Single.
  4. Restart the measurement.
  5. Read the RMARKER value from the Syms/Errs table. Call it RMARKER1.
  6. Resume the measurement (click Pause/Continue) to trigger on the next frame.
  7. Read RMARKER as RMARKER2.
  8. Calculate RMARKER2-RMARKER1.

For best accuracy, make sure that both devices performing the TOF measurement are using the same pulse shape.

 

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