Holux GR-87 User Manual

Holux GR-87 User Manual

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GPS Engine Board
1F, No. 30, R&D Rd. II, Hsinchu City 300, Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan.
Phone: +886-3-6687000 Fax: +886-3-6687111
E-Mail:
HOLUX Technology, Inc.
1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park)
TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw
User's Guide
Feb. 21, 2006
Version A
O UX
Technology Inc.
info@holux.com.tw
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With HOLUX, You never lose the way!
GR-87
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  • Page 1 Phone: +886-3-6687000 Fax: +886-3-6687111 E-Mail: info@holux.com.tw HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! GR-87 Feb. 21, 2006 Version A Technology Inc. Web: www.holux.com.tw...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    4.1 NMEA Transmitted Messages...7 4.2 RTCM Received Data ...13 4.3 . Manufacturing Default:...14 5. Mechanical Dimensions ...15 5.1 . GR-87-T0A, GR-87-T0C outline: ...15 5.2 . GR-87-T0B, GR-87-T0D outline: ...16 5.3 . Pin assignment of connector :...17 6. Operation and Test...19 7.
  • Page 3: Introduction

    Product series 1.Introduction The GR-87 series consists of SiRF star III chipsets technology, LNA and proprietary software. The system function block is described as follows. TTL RS-232 signal GSP3 HOLUX GR-87 is a high performance, low power consumption, small size, very easy integrated GPS engine board designed for a broad spectrum of OEM system applications.
  • Page 4: Main Feature

    On-board RTCM SC-104 DGPS and WAAS /EGNOS Demodulator Built-in a lithium battery make GPS fast positioning HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way!
  • Page 5: Technical Specifications

    2). Input current: Less than 80 mA (without antenna) . 3). Backup power: 3V Rechargeable Lithium cell battery, up to 500 hours discharge. HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way!
  • Page 6: Environmental Characteristics

    3) Interface connector 6-pin straight male header, 1.25 mm pitch . (Please refer to the appendix B) HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! 1 microsecond. ±...
  • Page 7: Software Interface

    Services (RTCM Recommended Standards For Differential Navstar GPS Service, Version 2.1, RTCM Special Committee No.104). As soon as the initial self-test is complete, the GR-87 begins the process of satellite acquisition and tracking automatically. Under normal circumstances, it takes approximately 45 seconds to achieve a position fix, 38 seconds if ephemeris data is known.
  • Page 8 GPS SPS Mode, fix valid Differential GPS, SPS Mode, fix valid HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! Units GGA protocol header hhmmss.sss ddmm.mmmm N=north or S=south dddmm.mmmm...
  • Page 9 HDOP VDOP HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! Units GLL protocol header ddmm.mmmm N/S Indicator N N=north or S=south dddmm.mmmm E=east or W=west hhmmss.sss...
  • Page 10 Satellite ID Elevation Azimuth HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! End of message termination Description Description Units GSV protocol header...
  • Page 11 $GPVTG,309.62,T, ,M,0.13,N,0.2,K*6E HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! dBHz Range 0 to 99, null when not tracking End of message termination...
  • Page 12 Note – The MSS NMEA message can only be polled or scheduled using the MSK NMEA input message. HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! Description Units VTG protocol header degrees Measured heading...
  • Page 13: Rtcm Received Data

    SRAM for later computing. HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! Description Units ZDA protocol header Either using valid IONO/UTC or...
  • Page 14: Manufacturing Default

    Sirfprog /Fdata58.dat –P1 –B4800 –Csh1 <Entry> After change datum, the new datum will keep in SRAM. If long time (more than 7 days) no power supplied to GR-87, user must resend datum to GR-87 when power on. 4.3.2 Addition Software SiRFdemo is the Evaluation Receiver configuration and monitoring software provided with the GR-87.
  • Page 15: Mechanical Dimensions

    Picture J1 Connector Pin 1 Design Layout Diagram: (unit mm) HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! MMCX Active Ant connector...
  • Page 16: Gr-87-T0B, Gr-87-T0D Outline

    Picture J1 Connector Pin 1 Design Layout Diagram: (unit mm) HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! MMCX Active Ant connector...
  • Page 17: Pin Assignment Of Connector

    RESET (option) RESET: Reset Input (Active Low)(option function) 5.3.1 VCC_5V This is the main DC power supply for a +3.3~ 5.5 V engine board. 5.3.2 TXA This is the main transmitting channel and is used to output navigation and measurement data for user written software.
  • Page 18 Product series 5.3.6 TIMEMARK (default)/ RESET (option) This pin default is provides 1 pulse per second output from the GR-87 engine board, which is synchronized to within 1 microsecond of GPS time. The output is a CMOS 3V positive level signal. Only upon a situation of tracking or navigating will output once per second.
  • Page 19: Operation And Test

    Product series 6. Operation and Test The customers can use HOLUX GPSView.exe to test the engine board. GPSViewer.exe is compatible with Microsoft Pocket PC or other operation system alike. 1). Install Microsoft ActiveSync to your PC, refer to your Pocket PC manual for installation procedure, as Fig.
  • Page 20 Fig. 6.5, Fig. 6.6, and Fig. 6.7. (Fig. 6.5) HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! (Fig. 6.3) (Fig. 6.4) (Fig. 6.6) (Fig. 6.7)
  • Page 21 Select “GPS Status” to show the satellite diagram like below, as Fig. 6.8. HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! (Fig. 6.8)
  • Page 22: Ordering Information

    Bluetooth GPS Receiver: GR-230/GR-231 Mini GPS Receiver: GR-211 HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw With HOLUX, You never lose the way! RF interface Back-up battery output voltage (V) (Rechargeable...
  • Page 23: Appendix A : Reference Design

    Product series Appendix A : Reference Design Fig A-1 is GR-87 connects to RS-232 transceiver solutions intended for portable or hand-held applications such as notebook and palmtop computers. TIMEMARK GR-87 engine board Appendix B : Connector RF Connector . Type MMCX.
  • Page 24 Product series With HOLUX, You never lose the way! Interface connector: Male header 1.25mm pitch DIP R/A type. HOLUX Technology, Inc. 1F, No.30, R&D Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (Hsinchu Science Industrial Park) TEL: 886-3-6687000 FAX:886-3-6687111 E-mail:info@holux.com.tw Website:www.holux.com.tw...

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