Features of Hardware-Version 0.21
- Modular design with separate Flight Controller (FC) and Sensor Board (SB) PCBs
- Flight Controller (FC)
- ARM7 LPC2148 60MHz 16/32 bit CPU with ARM7TDMI-S core (main CPU)
- Atmel ATmega644p 20mhz 8bit MCU (RC/Servo/Comm controller)
- Support for different I2C BL controllers:
Bl-Ctrl (mikrokopter.de)
YGEi (yge.de)
- Quax-BL mod
- Support for 5 servo channels (RC/Servo/Comm controller)
- Dual bidirectional I2C bus buffer
- Onboard power switch with 2 buttons
- Optional switched voltage regulator instead of linear voltage regulator
- Onboard switch for UART/USB ISP programming
- Acustic low voltage warning
- Programmable using JTAG, UART or USB interface
- SPI extention plug
- I2C extention plug
- 5 onboard UARTs (two of them 5V or 3.3V) for ACT DSL receivers, consoles and GPS
- 8-channel SPI level translators
- Sensor Board (SB)
- Atmel ATmega168 20mhz 8bit MCU (Sensor/GPS preprocessor)
- Sockets for 3 analog Gyros
- Sparkfun ADXRS300/ADXRS610 breakouts
- Melexis MLX90609-R2
- 4-channel 12bit ADC with 1Msps (Gyros)
- Discrete Sallen-Key Filters (Gyros)
- Dedicated Temperature Sensor
- Digital 3D linear acceleration sensor (Sparkfun LIS3LV02DQ)
- Absolute air pressure sensor (MPXH6115) with 24bit ADC
Compass based on 3D Magnetometer (MicroMag3)
- Dedicated low noise power supplies for 12/24bit ADCs and Gyros