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49 lines
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# Aikon F4
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## Description
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FC with no PDB aimed at multi-rotor and fixed wing use, Aikon F4 features a carefully-chosen timer design which allowed to run 4-6 motors with burst DSHOT with maximum efficiency. On board are dedicated pads for ESC telemetry, VTX and camera control. Board also features an 11-pin connector for plug-and-play connection with Aikon AK32 4in1 ESC, providing voltage, current and ESC telemetry reading with no additional wires.
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## MCU, Sensors and Features
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### Hardware
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- MCU: STM32F405
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- IMU: ICM-20602
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- Motor outputs: 4-6
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- IMU Interrupt: Yes
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- BARO: Optionally
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- VCP: Yes
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- Hardware UARTS: UART1 for SerialRX, UART3 for Inverted SmartPort, UART2 and UART4 available for general use
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- Software serial: SOFTSERIAL1 for VTX control (shared with UART1TX), SOFTSERIAL2 for ESC telemetry (shared with UART4RX)
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- OSD: Yes
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- Blackbox: SPI 16MB
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- PPM/LED_STRIP Shared: Yes
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- Battery Voltage Sensor: Yes
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- Integrated Voltage Regulator: Yes
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- Buttons: Boot
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### Features
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UART3 inverter is controllable by software, you can use the SBUS pad for any unidirectional protocol by setting `serialrx_inverted` accordingly. There's also a solder-jumper to bypass the inverter and connecto UART3_RX to `DSMX` pad directly.
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Software serial is preconfigured by default, all you have to do is enable SOFTSERIAL1 for VTX control and SOFTSERIAL2 for ESC sensor on the Ports tab in Configurator.
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## Manufacturers and Distributors
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https://www.aikon-electronics.com/
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## Designers
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AIKON Electronics
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Avi Jang
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## Maintainers
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Andrey Mironov (@DieHertz)
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## FAQ & Known Issues
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* First revision has no diode protecting the 5V input on the 11-pin ESC connector, make sure to pull the 5V wire coming from our ESC in order to avoid two regulators fighting against each other
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* First revision has RX4 (ESC Telemetry) and GND pad silkscreen swapped near motor outputs
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![Aikon F4 top](images/aikon-f4-rev1-top.jpg)
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![Aikon F4 bottom](images/aikon-f4-rev1-bottom.jpg)
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