Dear Friends,
in the last Months FoxTeam are working to develop some new exciting updates
We're working on Hardware:
- VR Brain MP32V3F1-IMU
- VR Brain MP32V3F4-IMU
- VR Distribution Board.
- VR Telemetry Board.
We implement two kind of ide for develop our project :
The VR IDE use:
- Standard Processing IDE same of Arduino.
- Complete integrated Eclipse IDE for editing , building and debug project (better for professional development)
- We are using OpenOCD Jtag Debugger for realtime inline debugging.
The Library :
- FoxTeam port and support Maple Library on all our platform.
- We port all standard APM library developed by DEVTEAM to MP32V3FX .
The Operating Systems :
We port on our platform different kind of Operating systems :
- FreeRtos
- ChibiOS
Firmware :
We porting on Multipilot32 the last revision of Arducopter 2.0.49 -50 firmware we try to mantain similar architecture of original Jason development but put inside same upgrade that is possible using the power of our platform.
Is available also professional support for develop custom application for different kind of application also for professional application .
After one year of experience on Arm Platform we are ready to present the new platform that will be available in the next months and in the new year.
News about Hardware :
Is available the new revision of Board the Multipilot32V3FX
It's will be available in different configuration :
MP32V3F1 - IMU
use the same micro of MP32V1 but have some upgrade for improve the quality of pcb and some news about the onboard peripherals :
- support SD using SDIO bus that is more fast of standard SPI port.
- We add also the support of USB as serial debug port.
The micro that we use is STM32F103 .
512 kbyte Flash and 64 Kbyte ram 72 Mhz cpu speed.
12 bit analog input.
16 bit PWM output.
The platform is available to end user.
MP32V3F4 - IMU
is the first low cost autopilot platform board that support powerfull STM32F4 Arm Cortex M4 micro .
1024 kbyte Flash and
196 Kbyte ram.
168 Mhz cpu speed.
USB Host OTG
Standard Video Input interface.
Integrate FPU (Floating Point Unit) for example the SQR function on STM103 is doing in 1200 cycles on STM32F4 it doing in 196 cycle. 10x fast
Integrate DSP hardware unit good for hardware matrix transformation , DCT and IDCT functionality.
12 bit analog input.
16 bit PWM output.
More info about the architecture of STM32F4 : http://www.emcu.it/STM32F4xx/STM32F4xx.html
check the official ST video presentation for more info about the new micro. I'm very happy to choose 1 years ago to invest on ST micro instead of SAM3U Atmel micro . ST doing us a big opportunity with this new microcontroller.
The platform is yet available for developer for more info about it contact me at lasernav@gmail.com
Is available the IMU revision of MP32V3FX .
We integrate on same board the MPU6000 that use SPI bus and DMA to transfer data between the micro and imu sensor.
in this sensor is available:
- Tri-Axis angular rate sensor (gyro) with a sensitivity up to 131 LSBs/dps and a full-scale range of ±250, ±500, ±1000, and ±2000dps
- Tri-Axis accelerometer with a programmable full scale range of ±2g, ±4g, ±8g and ±16g
- Digital Motion Processing™ (DMP™) engine offloads complex MotionFusion, sensor timing synchronization and gesture detection
Check this link for more info about the product :
http://invensense.com/mems/gyro/mpu6000.html
With this kind of architecture is posible to fly without any other kind of board. Is a good and powerfull RTF board.
To be continued ... :)
Original Post : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/profiles/blogs/project-update-mp32v3f4-arm-cortex-m4-available-fpu-and-dsp-on-bo
Comments
@Jan,
don't worry the MP32V1F1 is our bestseller product . With a lot of library and firmware ready to fly . the MP32V3F4 at the moment is only for Professiona hard coder , we're working to finish bootloader and driver.
Today I'm doing a complete test of VR Telemetry Board (OSD + JetiBox telemetry) in the next days we present the new product . The quality of result is very impressive and professional to be tuned :)
Best
Roberto
Roberto, you are too fast! First I must start playing with MP32V1F1! ;-)
@Jonh ,
yes is powerfull "hobby" microcontroller board available on the market :) Is 2x-3x better of Arduino Due board.
Now the big problem is to use all this power in our new projects :)
@YureZzZ
You can found more info about the price of product here : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/page/multipilot32-1.
The price of new product as MP32V3F4 will be available soon .
Best
Roberto
Nice hardware, any info on price?
Cool to see that you are already incorporating an STM32F4 in an autopilot. I'm waiting for a Discovery board for it to come in the mail so I can try it out. It seems like it's the most powerful "hobby" microcontroller out there.