Meeting Notes - Avionics - 2022-09-21

Date

Attendees


Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes

Altium Licenses

Backplane updates

Sensor

  • Selected ICs
  • Started research into other components 
  • Selected breakout boards Finalized ICs

Power

  • got power requirements from  everyone 
  • Moving from 1 switcher to 2 LDOs to 1 switcher to each LDO

Backplane

  • gave james power (smile)
  • allocating 
  • only guaranteeing digital signals, no guarantees on noise w/ analog signals
  • going w/ SwitchBlox instead of an IC
    • 5 ports
    • magnetics
    • has an STM32 for managed mode (w/ SW support)


Radio

  • Selected breakout boards
  • Most components selected

Autopilot

  • Picking out CPU candidates, main candidates:
    • STM32
    • VoCore2
    • STM32WL radio MCU
      • bad software support (Makefile project is buggy w/ CubeMX)

Backplane timeline -have CDR week after irec CDR with all mod perlimiatry layout Ben Hyman (RIT Student) Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student) 


IREC PDRWhole Team

Action items

THINK OF NAME

IREC Avionics bay  

  • Other mece for ave bay
  • Yev updated ave bay to fit in in coupler tube
  • PDR this weekend
  • Timeline

IREC COTs

  • PDR 
  • Timeline
  • Finalize components 
  • Bridge wires

Backplane

Autopilot Ben Hyman (RIT Student) 

  • Look into other Linux SoMs
  • Decide microcontroller
  • Everyone use the same flash
  • Buy SoM
  • Buy eeprom 
  • BEN NEEDS TO SIGN THE SPACE GRANT 

Radio Dante Sivo (RIT Student) 

  • Design breakout boards for XBee and GPS and EEPROM (XBee will be a bit longer lead time so need to get in)
  • Buy components for breakouts
  • Breakout need to by stencil
  • Everyone use the same flash
  • discuss LEDSSs remove WS2813B-8 Ben Hyman (RIT Student) 

Backplane Billy Siegener (RIT Student) 

Sensor Mary Dertinger (RIT Student) Louis Fleisher (RIT Student) 

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  • Design breakout boards
  • Buy breakout board
  • Select remaining components

Power James May (RIT Student) 

  • Finalize power calculations
  • Everyone use the same flash