Board - Seriously Pro SP Racing F3

The Seriously Pro Racing F3 board (SPRacingF3) is the first board designed specifically for Cleanflight.

Purchasing boards directly from SeriouslyPro / SP Racing and official retailers helps fund Cleanflight development, it’s the reason the Seriously Pro boards exist! Official retailers are always listed on the SeriouslyPro.com website.

Full details available on the website, here:

http://seriouslypro.com/spracingf3

Hardware Features

  • No compromise I/O. Use all the features all the time; e.g. Connect your OSD + SmartPort + SBus + GPS + LED Strip + Battery Monitoring + Sonar + 8 motors - all at the same time!
  • On-board high-capacity black box flight log recorder - optimize your tuning and see the results of your setup without guesswork. (Acro and Deluxe)
  • Next-generation STM32 F3 processor with hardware floating point unit for efficient flight calculations and faster ARM-Cortex M4 core.
  • Stackable design - perfect for integrating with OSDs and power distribution boards.
  • 16 PWM I/O lines for ESCs, Servos and legacy receivers. 8 available on standard pin headers. 8 via side mounted connectors.
  • Supports SBus, SumH, SumD, Spektrum1024/2048, XBus, PPM, PWM receivers. No external inverters required (built-in).
  • Dedicated output for programmable LEDs - great for orientation, racing and night flying.
  • Dedicated I2C port for connection of OLED display without needing flight battery.
  • Battery monitoring ports for voltage and current.
  • Buzzer port for audible warnings and notifications.
  • Solder pads in addition to connectors for Sonar, PPM, RSSI, Current, GPIO, LED Strip, 3.3v,
  • Developer friendly debugging port (SWD) and boot mode selection, unbrickable bootloader.
  • Symmetrical design for a super tidy wiring.
  • Wire up using using pin headers, JST-SH sockets or solder pads. Use either right-angled or straight pin-headers.
  • Barometer mounted on the bottom of the board for easy wind isolation.

Serial Ports

Value Identifier RX TX 5v Tolerant Notes
1 USART1 PA10 PA9 YES Internally connected to USB port via CP2102 IC. Also available on a USART1 JST connector and on through hole pins.
2 USART2 PA15 PA14 YES Available on USART2 JST port only.
3 USART3 PB11 / IO2_3 PB10 / IO2_4 NO Available on IO_2, USART3 JST port and through hole pins.
  • You cannot use SWD and USART2 at the same time.
  • You may encounter flashing problems if you have something connected to the USART1 RX/TX pins. Power other devices off and/or disconnect them.

Pinouts

Full pinout details are available in the manual, here:

http://seriouslypro.com/spracingf3#manual

IO_1

The 8 pin IO_1 connector has the following pinouts when used in RX_PARALLEL_PWM mode.

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 VCC_IN Voltage as-supplied by BEC.
3 RC_CH1
4 RC_CH2
5 RC_CH5
6 RC_CH6
7 LED_STRIP Enable feature LED_STRIP
8 VCC 3.3v output for LOW CURRENT application only

When RX_PPM/RX_SERIAL is used the IO_1 pinout is as follows.

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 VCC_IN Voltage as-supplied by BEC.
3 RX_PPM Enable feature RX_PPM
4 GPIO
5 SoftSerial1_RX
6 SoftSerial1_TX
7 LED_STRIP Enable feature LED_STRIP
8 VCC 3.3v output for LOW CURRENT application only

IO_2

The 8 pin IO_2 connector has the following pinouts when used in RX_PARALLEL_PWM mode.

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 VCC_IN Voltage as-supplied by BEC.
3 RC_CH3
4 RC_CH4
5 RC_CH7/SONAR_TRIG
6 RC_CH8/SONAR_ECHO
7 ADC_1 Current Sensor
8 ADC_2 RSSI

When RX_PPM/RX_SERIAL is used the IO_2 pinout is as follows.

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 VCC_IN Voltage as-supplied by BEC.
3 RX_SERIAL UART3 RX
4 UART3_TX
5 SONAR_TRIG/SoftSerial2_RX Enable feature SONAR/SOFTSERIAL
6 SONAR_ECHO/SoftSerial2_TX Enable feature SONAR/SOFTSERIAL
7 ADC_1 Current Sensor
8 ADC_2 RSSI

UART1/2/3

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 VCC_IN Voltage as-supplied by BEC.
3 TXD
4 RXD

I2C

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 5.0v Voltage as-supplied by BEC OR USB, always on
3 SCL
4 SDA

SWD

The port cannot be used at the same time as UART2.

Pin Function Notes
1 Ground
2 NRST
3 SWDIO
4 SWDCLK

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