VN-100(T) Development Kit
The development kit is a complete set of hardware and software designed to help you explore the device's features and start application development quickly and easily. Kits include a VN-100 orientation sensor, development board, evaluation software, cables, printed manuals, and device drivers.
Development Board
The development board comes with a VN-100 sensor pre-installed. It provides quick and easy access to all the hardware features provided by the VN-100. Connect the sensor to a PC using either the USB or RS-232 serial connections, or for embedded testing connect to the 20-pin header to gain access to all the pins on the chip. With a small size of only 3 inches, the development board is small enough to be used as an end product for many applications. Mounting holes are provided for this purpose. See the development kit user manual for more information.
Breakout Board
As an alternative to our surface mount package, we also offer a breakout board for the VN-100(T) with 0.1" pin spacing, allowing it to be used with standard protoboards. The breakout board is 1.5" x 1.3" and provides access to all of the pins to the VN-100.
Development Software - Sensor Explorer
Sensor Explorer is a software package provided with each development kit that gives quick and easy access to the sensor's rich feature set. After receiving your development kit, within minutes you will be able to perform all of the following task:
Sensor Explorer Features
- Visualize the sensors orientation in 3D
- Graph real-time measurements from all of the sensor's measured states
- Record sensor measurements to a comma-delimited text file for import into other software such as Excel or Matlab.
- Quickly view and modify all of the sensor's internal registers
- Perform sensor firmware update
Development Software - Docklight Serial Terminal
To further assist users in embedded development, each kit includes a trial version of Docklight RS232 Serial Terminal. Docklight is a feature rich serial terminal that gives developers a view of all data sent to and from the VN-100 sensor. A script file with full examples of each of the serial commands accepted by the sensor is also included with the development kit.
For more information on docklight and its features, visit www.docklight.de/index.htm
The firmware library consists of a collection of routines, data structures, and macros that provide the user with high level control over the functionality of the entire line of VectorNav embedded sensors. This library provides a set of device drivers that help developers spend more time focusing on utilizing the rich features and capabilities of the sensors, and less time worrying about the low-level details of the communication protocols. The library also consists of a wide variety of attitude and inertial guidance related functions that will assist developers in making use of the rich set of measurements provided by the VectorNav line of inertial sensors.
The driver source code is developed in Strict ANSI-C. Providing the library in Strict ANSI-C makes it independent from the software toolchain.
Device Driver Features and Benefits
- Entire firmware library in C with all library source and include files provided
- Independent from software toolchain
- Full user manual documentation
Math Library Features and Benefits
- Fully documented and tested suite of math related functions
- All routines are designed for statically allocated vectors and matrices
- Common vector and matrix operations
- Quaternion operations
- Complete set of attitude transformations
- Quaternion to DCM
- Quaternion to any Euler angle set
- Quaternion to many other common attitude representations
- Coordinate system transformations
- Kinematic differential equations
Software and Documentation
Embedded Firmware Library (1.23 MB)
Firmware Library User Manual(1.23 MB)