GPS World, August 2012

PRODUCT SHOWCASE www gpsworld com products TIMING WIRELESS Timing for Mobile Apps The HD CSAC GPSDO is based on the Jackson Labs chip scale atomic clocks GPSDO platform but optimizes size weight and power SWAP by removing some of the generic features of the CSAC GPSDO The HD CSAC was designed for mobile applications such as man pack airborne and vehicle applications The HD CSAC GPSDO provides an RS 232 serial port for command and control and operates from a 12V power supply It includes CMOS and LVDS 10 MHz outputs and an LVDS 1 PPS output It is function compatible to the FireFly II board and shares the same IO connector while drastically reducing power consumption and improving performance especially during GPS holdover The HD CSAC GPSDO supports a mobile mode GPS receiver with 50 channels and SBAS WAAS EGNOS MSAS support and better than 160 dBm tracking capability It supports industry standard NMEA output sentences and an SCPI control and command interface The board is available in standard temperature versions as well as extended temperature versions with 40C to 85C temperature range Jackson Labs www jackson labs com GPS GNSS Disciplinable Rubidium Source The RBSource is a low cost high performance GPS GNSS disciplinable Rubidium reference source in a compact 1U package It integrates a smart Rubidium clock and uses the GPS GNSS SmarTiming technology GNSS signal quality at 1 ns resolution Its designed for crossindustry applications where high stability and time keeping features are a driving requirement Features include a rackmountable chassis output frequencies of 4x 10MHz 4x 1PPS or 8x 10 MHz and user programmable SYNTH output Spectratime www spectratime com CONSUMER OEM disciplining the Rb clock with an auto adaptive loop time constant of 1000 to 100000 seconds depending on the GPS Sensitive Software GNSS Receiver Timing Receiver PolaRx4TR is a special variant of PolaRx4 which accepts an external 10 MHz reference and 1PPS input to perfectly synchronize the GNSS measurements with an external time and frequency standard making PolaRx4TR suitable for frequency and time transfer applications The PolaRx4 family features a GNSS disciplined 10 MHz output Powered by Septentrios multi frequency receiver engine PolaRx4 offers 264 hardware channels capable of simultaneously tracking GPS GLONASS Galileo and SBAS signs in L1 L2 L5 and E5ab AltBOC bands The tracking engine also supports Beidou and GLONASS K L3 CDMA signal tracking Septentrio www septentrio com Seventy percent of navigation tasks are initiated indoors Spirits Super Sensitive Software GNSS Receiver is specifically designed to provide reliable and accurate navigation in nearly all conditions High sensitivity tracking up to 169 dBm autonomous cold start acquisition 156 dBm hot start and AGNSS start acquisition up to 162 dBm allows indoor and outdoor positioning Different AGNSS modes Long Time Ephemeris and Self Assist GPS allow positioning even when navigation message decoding is impossible because of a low signal level Newly added support of IMES Indoor Messaging System provides 3D positioning even in deep indoor conditions where satellite signal receiving is impossible Doubleconstellation GPS GLONASS concurrent navigation allows reliable positioning in dense urban canyons due to the doubled number of visible satellites Newly added support of QZSS gives more accurate position when navigating in Far East regions Spirit DSP www spiritdsp com GPS World August 2012 www gpsworld com 40