Description
- New cost-effective design with low-profile form factor
- High-performance H7 Processor with a clock speed of up to 480 MHz
- Redundant inertial measurement unit (IMU) from Bosch & InvenSense
- IMUs are temperature-controlled by onboard heating resistors, allowing the optimum working temperature of IMUs
- A newly designed integrated vibration isolation system to filter out high-frequency vibration and reduce noise to ensure accurate readings
The Pixhawk 6X-RT is based on the Pixhawk FMUv6X-RT Open Standard and the Pixhawk Autopilot Bus Standard. It comes with PX4 Autopilot pre-installed. Inside the Pixhawk 6X-RT flight controller, you can find an NXP-based i.MXRT1176 MCU, paired with sensor technology from Bosch and InvenSense, gives you flexibility and reliability for controlling any autonomous vehicle.
The i.MXRT1176 microcontroller contains an Arm Cortex-M7 at 1 GHz and a Cortex-M4 at 400 MHz. It has 2MB SRAM and 64MB Octal SPI Flash. Thanks to the updated processing power, developers can be more productive and efficient with their development work, allowing for complex algorithms and models.
It includes high-performance, low-noise IMUs designed for better stabilization, and has triple redundant IMUs & double redundant barometers on separate buses. When the Autopilot detects a sensor failure, the system seamlessly switches to another to maintain flight control reliability. An independent LDO powers every sensor set with independent power control. A vibration isolation system to filter out high-frequency vibration and reduce noise to ensure accurate readings, allowing vehicles to reach better overall flight performances. An integrated Microchip Ethernet PHY, high-speed communication with mission computers via Ethernet is now possible.
The Pixhawk 6X-RT is perfect for developers at corporate research labs, startups, academics (research, professors, students), and commercial applications. This Flight controller is compatible with any baseboard that uses the Pixhawk Autopilot bus, such as the Pixhawk Baseboard, Pixhawk Mini Baseboard, and Pixhawk RPi CM4 Baseboard.
Key Design Points Ethernet interface for high-speed mission computer integration Redundancy: 3x IMU sensors & 2x Barometer sensors on separate buses High-performance dual-core i.MXRT1176 Processor with Cortex-M7 @ 1GHz Cortex-M4 @ 400MHz Vibration isolation system to filter out high-frequency vibration and reduce noise to ensure accurate readings IMUs are temperature-controlled by onboard heating resistors, allowing optimum working temperature of IMUs Triple redundancy domains: Completely isolated sensor domains with separate buses and separate power control Modular flight controller: separated IMU, FMU, and Base system connected by a 100-pin & a 50-pin Pixhawk Autopilot Bus connector. Hardware secure element NXP EdgeLock SE051 an extension to the widely trusted EdgeLock SE050 Plug & Trust secure element family, supports applet updates in the field and delivers proven security certified to CC EAL 6+, with AVA_VAN.5 up to the OS level, for strong protection against the most recent attack scenarios.. E.g to securely store operator ID. Note This developer edition is for early adopters while we continue to accumulate flight test hours This Flight Controller is currently supported in PX4 Flight Stack only. (Firmware Target: FMUv6xrt). It is not supported in Ardupilot. This Flight controller uses a digital power module (same as Pixhawk 6X, full list can be found here) Power module comparison chart
Specification 2MB SRAM MCU: i.MXRT1176 Cortex-M7 @ 1GHz 64MB Octal SPI Flash Cortex-M4 @ 400MHz
IO Processor: STM32F103 32 Bit Arm Cortex-M3, 72MHz, 64KB SRAM
On-board sensors Accel/Gyro: BMI088 Accel/Gyro: ICM-42670-P Accel/Gyro: ICM-42686-P Mag: BMM150 Barometer: 2x BMP388
Hardware secure element NXP EdgeLock SE051C2
SDHC interface 12-Channel PWM 8x UART 4x I2C 6x SPI 3x CAN-FD RMII 100M Ethernet USB
Open-Source Software enablement PX4 Autopilot NuttX RTOS Zephyr RTOS
SKU20257 Standard Set/ SKU258 Mini Set Includes Pixhawk 6X-RT Flight Controller Module Pixhawk Standard Base/Pixhawk Mini Base PM02D HV Power Module Cable Set
Reference link Firmware Flashing Instruction (Github) PX4 on the NXP IMXRT1176 1 GHz MCU - Presentation slides by NXP i.MX RT1176 product page 1 GHz Crossover MCU with Arm Cortex Cores EdgeLock SE051: Proven, Easy-to-Use IoT Security Solution with Support for updatability and Custom Applets