ST STEVAL-FCU001V2 Getting Started

UM2958
User manual
Getting started with the STEVAL-FCU001V2 flight controller unit evaluation board
for mini drones
Introduction
The STEVAL-FCU001V2 evaluation board is designed as a simple platform to develop flight controller unit (FCU) solutions for
quadcopters.
A complete sample firmware project (STSW-FCU001) allows you to begin flying small or medium sized quadcopters equipped
with DC motors (thanks to four 30 V-9 A on-board MOSFETs), and larger quadcopters with external ESCs (that is, STEVAL-
ESC001V1 or STEVAL-ESC002V1).
You can control the board via BLE connectivity (using a smartphone or a tablet) or via an RF receiver module connected to the
PWM input port.
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The system embeds a high-performance Arm Cortex -M4 microcontroller unit (STM32F401CCU6), an iNEMO inertial module
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(LSM6DSR), a Bluetooth low energy module (BlueNRG-M0A), power management circuitry that allows fast charge of the
(TM) (TM)
battery (STC4054), and four STL10N3LLH5 N-channel 30 V, 9 A, PowerFLAT STripFET V Power MOSFET to drive a
quadcopter motor.
An additional barometric pressure sensor (LPS22HH) provides altitude estimation.
This reference design can be used to develop sophisticated auto-navigation algorithms thanks to more than 100 DMIPS
available on the STM32 and the scalability of the board, which can be connected to the Teseo-LIV3F GNSS module or to a set
of Time-of-Flight sensors like the VL53L5CX.
The system passed the RF test for European certification, FCC certification, and IC certification (FCC ID: S9NBNRGM0AL and
IC: 8976C-BNRGM0AL).
Figure 1. STEVAL-FCU001V2 evaluation board
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