CAN-BPWRD | Pinout | Drogue Systems Product Documentation

Explaining the pinout of the CAN-BPWRD board

Important: The CAN-BPWRD Docs are still under development, so may be subject to change.

1.0 Pinout Overview

The CAN-BPWRD development board has 2.54mm pitch male pin headers which are compatible with most standard off-the-shelf ‘DuPont’ type jumper/breadboard wires.

Tip: If you plan to make your own jumper wires, we recommend the Amphenol MinitoPV series receptacles with ‘ultra high’ spring force and the respective MinitoPV housings. These provide a strong, secure fitment.

The pins on the CAN-BPWRD board can be separated into 3 categories:

Not Programmable I/O Pins: These are pins such as Vin or GND, which do not provide programmable function.
Internally Reserved Pins: I/O Pins on the MCU which have dedicated roles on this board, such as the CAN pins or voltage measurement.
Exposed / Available I/O pins: These pins are available on the pin headers for you to use as you please.

2.0 Not Programmable I/O Pins

2.1 CAN Bus Vin and GND pins

The CAN-BPWRD development board has 4 pairs of CAN bus Vin and GND pins exposed; two pairs for each CAN bus.

The two pairs within a bus are directly connected to one another, providing you the means to pass through the bus voltage to other devices in the network.

By making use of diodes, the two pairs in CAN bus 1 are independent from the two pairs in CAN bus 2. This means you are able to connect two different power supplies - even at different voltages - to the board. The development board will take power from either input, providing redundancy if one was to fail.

Warning: Take care to not connect 2 different power supplies to the same CAN bus

CAN-BPWRD Image with Annotated Pinout of CAN Vin Pins with Representative Schematic

The CAN bus Vin pins are designed to expect a 24V input - as per the UCANPHY specification. However, the acceptable range has been widened to allow ~6.5V* to 40V.

Important: *Inputs as low as 6.5V have been shown to work in testing, however they may become unstable depending on peripheral current draw due to the increased voltage drop across some components

Note: If you would like to power the CAN-BPWRD development board from a lower voltage supply, please see the low voltage documentation page for the available options.

2.2 CAN Termination Jumper Pins

Each CAN bus has pair of pins labeled ‘TERM’, these pins are intended to be optionally shorted together using a jumper to add a termination resistor across the CAN data lines.

CAN-BPWRD Image with Highlighted Pinout of CAN 'TERM' Pins — CAN-BPWRD Image with Annotated Pinout of CAN 'TERM' Pins

See the CAN-BPWRD CAN documentation page for more information on this function.

2.3 5V and 3V3 Enable Jumper Pins

The CAN-BPWRD development board has pins dedicated to connecting and disconnecting the 5V and 3.3V regulators to the rest of the board.

2.4 General use 5V, 3.3V and GND Pins

3.0 Internally Reserved MCU Pins

Internally …..

Pin Name	Assigned Function	Description
PAX	ADCXINX	Read CAN Bus 1 Vin voltage
PAX	ADCXINX	Read CAN Bus 2 Vin voltage
Item 3	V0.2 spec	VX.X spec

3.1 Vin Voltage Measurements

4.0 Exposed / Available IO Pins

5.0 Using the STM32CubeIDE to Determine Pin Assignments

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