Hi everyone, here are the meeting minutes for the hardware meeting from April 21st. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I missed anything.
Happy Hacking!
Pixhawk V6 & V6x
V6 block diagram pinout almost ready will be published soon
Summary of changes
Consumer profile
Similar to V5 with H7
FDCAN
HS USBC (USB high speed)
Different from V5x or V6x
No ethernet
Relative to V5x
Removed one telemetry port
Removed two SPI buses
NOTE: The V6 & V6x specs will be released at the same time.
NOTE: Looking for volunteers: We need prototype V6x hardware based on the complete final spec (available now).
What does it take to get this spec to a complete state?
Get in shape to close the spec, in increments, pragmatic but stable proposal
ESC facing and Battery facing messages is all we need to get started
Get messages cleanly specified if not everything for v1
TODO: Share UAVCAN spec
We need to finalize the message spec for BMS, lay battery spec flat next week, units precision BMS doc where we hash out units, and we can port this over to DS-015 later.
Hard mount version, we need to investigate the needs for a hard-mount version of this standard, we are going to be discussing potential timeline on the next meeting. (Freefly underside chassis)
Pin Definition
3.3v required, boards might be 5v tolerant, but spec calls for 3.3v, the only exception is CAN
TODO: define nominal CAN voltage, 5v transceiver? 60v high-end, more than 20v
