Our UDB4 Devboard arrived today. It has the following features:
- Compatible with 20-channel EM-406A SiRF III GPS
- Compatible with 50-channel GS407 Helical GPS
- DSPIC33FJ256 Controller (with onboard 3.3V and 5V glue logic)
- DSPIC runs at 120MHz with 8MHz resonator and PLL
- MMA7361 three axis accelerometer
- IDG500 dual axis gyro and ISZ500 single axis gyro
- External 256Kbit EEPROM
- Up to 8 Input, 8 output PWM points
- 6-wire debug header or ICSP header
- 4 separate colored status LEDs
- On board 3.3V and 5V regulators (150mA max)
- Spare USART connection for debugging, flight logging, wireless telemetry, etc.
- 30 spare analog and digital I/O pins for debugging and interfacing to sensors
We added a slot (covering UART RX2, TX2 and GND) to transmit our data for telemetry and another for programming the micro-controller through PIC-Kit 2. You can install the version of PIC-Kit 2 (2.61) and replace a file in it if you already have one and do not wish to use PIC_Kit 3. You may find the necessary software and other stuff for this purpose at the google devboard discussion forum - Software and Replacement File.
For providing power supply to the UDB4 DevBoard we will use our previously made supplier (9 Volt Adapter and 7805 voltage regulator along with 100 micro-farad capacitor).
For UD4 DevBoard we will open MatrixPilot-udb4 program in MPLab IDE software. One of the majore differences here is that the serial output format is defined as: #define SERIAL_OUTPUT_FORMAT SERIAL_MAVLINK and the type of board is defined as: #define BOARD_TYPE UDB4_BOARD.
