GPS-RECEIVER JP7-T
VERSION 1.02
0 Introduction
0.1 General
This description is focussed on the GPS receiver of the FALCOM JP7-T
family from FALCOM GmbH. The JP7-T family is an excellent device
designed and supports a wide variety of solutions regarding to the customer
fulfilment, the wide variety of the JP7-T family offers easy integration in the
various way on the user independent application platform. Regarding to the
JP7-T family (which contains JP7-T, JP7-TB, JP7-TC-1(-2)) concept, there
are three different GPS receiver with different options. This manual contains
information about purpose and use of the GPS receivers included into the
FALCOM JP7-T family. Please read this manual very carefully to avoid any
mistakes and to secure an optimal use of the devices. Each GPS receiver
into the JP7-T family is a single-board 12 parallel channel receiver intended
as a component for OEM products. The FALCOM JP7-T family is based
and advanced on the Falcom JP7 GPS receiver which delivers major
advancement in GPS performance, accuracy, integration, computing power
and flexibility without modification regarding to the receiver form factor
and pin-out. Each GPS receiver of the FALCOM JP7-T family has an
integrated temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXO). Due to the
higher stability of frequency it offers a high improved performance.
Additionally, a TCXO accept the condition for use the SiRFXTrac2
firmware. The JP7- T family using SiRFXTrac2 firmware is able to track
the GPS signals an extremely small level by 16 dBHz. In addition, higher
sensitivity allows it more flexibility on the its design, the placement of the
antenna and the selection of the kind of antenna. The GPS receiver
continuously tracks all satellites in view, thus providing accurate satellite
position data. The highly integrated digital receiver uses the SiRFstarII-Low
Power chipset. The internal GPS software completes the package providing
flexible system architecture for standalone GPS based products.
In order to save space on the application platform, the Falcom JP7-T family
comes as an extremely slim and compact module. This makes it ideally
suited for a broad range of mobile computing devices, and particularly
offers easy integration with smart phones, PDAs, and other handhelds.
The FALCOM JP7-T family is also designed to be an entire product such as
an AVL tracking unit, handheld GPS.
Please consult SiRF (
) for special information about the
SiRFstarII-Low Power chipset.
Figure 1
: The FALCOM JP7-T family GPS receiver (top, side and bottom view)
Users are advised to proceed quickly to the chapter "Security" and read the
hints carefully to secure its optimal use.
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