Ardupilot build for ULTRA96 board

[AntonAnton (Anton)]

Hi all,

I am trying to run Ardupilot software on the ULTRA96 board (ARM A53, 64 bit, Ubuntu). The idea on my project is similar to this guys (https://aerotenna.readme.io./docs) (FPGA accelerated flight controller). At this point I can do all the sensors interfacing in the FPGA and save the data to a fixed memory location without CPU participating. Next step is to install Ardupilot on my board and tell the sensor drivers where the data is (http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/code-overview-sensor-drivers.html).

I am not sure where to start, because ULTRA96 is not supported by Ardupilot software and it is a 64 bit system. At this point I want to install Ardupilot and connect it to the ground station.

Do you have any pointers?

Cheers,
Anton

[amilcarlucas]

sure:

http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/porting.html

ArduPilot porting guide for ChibiOS + STM microcontrollers

[chibios-ardupilot-porting-guide] One of the popular presentations at the Developer Un-Conference was Tridge’s talk on ArduPilot’s move to ChibiOS and the very significant performance improvements that gives us. (presentation, video) There is now a developer wiki page on how to port ArduPilot to run on new flight controller boards especially those with STM32x CPUs. As you’ll see from the guide, with some of the most common STM CPUs, porting can be as easy as creating a new hwdef.dat file to …

[amilcarlucas]

Can you post your SystemVerilog code and or VHDL code? Xilinx or Intel ?