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- ## Hardware Information
- The YANG HHKB BLE controller design is similiar to hasu's
- controller. Most pins are compatiable.
- **MCU**: ATmega32U4
- **Bluetooth**: MDBT40 (nRF51822-based), with Adafruit Bluefruit LE UART Friend firmware.
- **Power**: 3.3V
- **CPU Frequency**: 8MHz
- **Bootloader**: Lufa MassStorage
- ## Pin usage
- | Description | HASU pin usage | YANG mod changed |
- |:------------------------------------ | ---------------------- | -------------------------- |
- | ~KEY: Lo(0) when key is pressed | PD7 input(with pullup) | |
- | Hysteresis: Hi(1) if key was pressed | PB7 output | |
- | Row selector bit0 | PB0 output | |
- | Row selector bit1 | PB1 output | |
- | Row selector bit2 | PB2 output | |
- | Col selector bit0 | PB3 output | |
- | Col selector bit1 | PB4 output | |
- | Col selector bit2 | PB5 output | |
- | Key unable | PB6 output | |
- | Switch power | PD4 output | PD6 output (PMOS FET) |
- | Bluetooth UART Rx | PC4 input | PD2 |
- | Bluetooth UART Tx | PC5 output | PD3 |
- | Bluetooth power | | PD5 output (low: power on) |
- | LED 0 | | PF4 |
- | LED 2 | | PF1 |
- | LED 4 | | PF0 |
- | Unused for PRO2 | PC6 | |
- | Unused for PRO2 | PC7 | |
- | Inner USB power | | PF7 |
- ## How to flash LUFA MassStorage bootloader on Linux
- The FAT filesystem on Linux very often cannot flush the write cache,
- leading to broken firmware in the flash.
- We can use `dd` to write to the virtual block storage directly to
- bypass the vfs layer.
- ```
- dd if=FLASH.bin of=<path of virtual block device> seek=4
- ```
- Skip 4 sectors because the default sector size of the virtual device
- and dd is 512 bytes and the emulated flash file starts at 5th sector.
- ## How to find the path of the virtual block device
- After the keyboard boots into flash mode, on Linux system you should
- be able to find the block device in `dmesg` logs.
- For exmaple if you type
- ```
- sudo dmesg
- ```
- You should find something like
- ```
- [357885.143593] usb 1-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 24
- [357885.627740] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 25 using xhci_hcd
- [357885.729486] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=03eb, idProduct=1962, bcdDevice= 0.01
- [357885.729492] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
- [357885.745620] SCSI subsystem initialized
- [357885.746712] usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
- [357885.746818] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0
- [357885.746919] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
- [357885.747689] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
- [357886.766755] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access LUFA Bootloader 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
- [357886.773216] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
- [357886.777474] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdx] 134 512-byte logical blocks: (68.6 kB/67.0 KiB)
- [357886.780300] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdx] Write Protect is off
- [357886.780302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdx] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
- [357886.783113] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdx] Asking for cache data failed
- [357886.783114] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdx] Assuming drive cache: write through
- [357886.842676] sdx:
- [357886.859528] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdx] Attached SCSI removable disk
- ```
- The `sdx` is the block device name and the full path is at `/dev/sdx`
- The above flash command will become
- ```
- dd if=FLASH.bin of=/dev/sdx seek=4
- ```
- ## Adafruit Bluefruit LE UART configuraton
- The default baud rate used by the firmware is 76800 although adafruit
- do not recommend using higher baudrates than 9600 because the nRF51
- UART can drop characters.
- Double speed mode to get more accurate async reading because the F_CPU
- speed is 8MHz.
- ## Power saving mode design
- Power saving is only enabled when USB is detached and using battery
- power. Here we define several levels of power saving mode, each saves
- more power but takes longer to resume operation.
- 1. Level 1: idle mode is activated after a short configurable time
- (MATRIX_POWER_SAVE_TIMEOUT_MS) MCU is put into sleep mode and only
- scan the matrix per 15ms. PORTB pins are set to input with pull-up
- to save power. Sensing PCB is powered down between scans.
- 2. Level 2: after idling for longer (MATRIX_POWER_SAVE_TIMEOUT_L2_MS)
- we entry this state. Matrix scan is skipped until the time lapses
- 900ms.
- 2. Level 3: sleep mode is activated after a longer timeout
- (MATRIX_POWER_SAVE_TIMEOUT_L3_MS) Bluetooth module is powered down.
- ## Battery reading
- VBAT is connected to AIN6 pin on the MDBT40 module and the AREF pin is
- the reference voltage. Doing a ADC with AT+HWDAC=6 will return the
- difference between VBAT and VREF.
- It seems when fully charged the ADC read is 550. Likely VREF is 3311mV
- and the fully charged VBAT is thus 3861mV.
- Enable battery service with AT+BLEBATTEN=1 first then we can update the
- battery level by using AT+BLEBATTVAL=%d
- ## References
- * https://github.com/joric/qmk/wiki/hhkb_ble
- * https://github.com/tomsmalley/custom-topre-guide
- * https://github.com/abcminiuser/lufa/blob/master/Bootloaders/MassStorage/Lib/VirtualFAT.h