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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