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Homemade GPS Receiver

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PSCG
Tue Oct 04 2011, 04:41PM Print
PSCG Registered Member #3792 Joined: Sun Mar 27 2011, 06:07PM
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Take a look at this: The guy built a GPS receiver out of discrete parts!!!

Not the easiest project....
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Tetris
Wed Oct 05 2011, 05:51PM
Tetris Registered Member #4016 Joined: Thu Jul 21 2011, 01:52AM
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O_O woah. now all I want to know is does he use it in his car?:P
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2Spoons
Thu Oct 06 2011, 01:31AM
2Spoons Registered Member #2939 Joined: Fri Jun 25 2010, 04:25AM
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He build the RF frontend out of (mostly) discrete parts. Not quite the same as building a whole GPS receiver in discretes.
Still - credit for the effort.
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AndrewM
Thu Oct 06 2011, 01:38AM
AndrewM Registered Member #49 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:05AM
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That was disappointing...

Computational "heavy-lifting" such as FFT-based search and solving for user position are performed by the PC.

I thought he implemented THAT with discretes! LOL.

I had a homework assignment once to write a GPS algorithm in matlab - a file of raw antenna data was provided and the assignment was to write a search algorithm and calculate position. Until you've tried it is hard to grasp the computing power required. My implementation was far from efficient but even the satellite search that can be accomplished in seconds by a commercial receiver takes a lot oomph.
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PSCG
Thu Oct 06 2011, 08:15AM
PSCG Registered Member #3792 Joined: Sun Mar 27 2011, 06:07PM
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That was disappointing...

OK, sorry for misunderstanding, but i was too excited when i was writting this... frown

Anyway, only the effort the guy did to make a program for using and implementing the GPS raw data is already something over the top.

If he can make a program for a second FPGA to do the FFT and user position job, now that is a GPS receiver using discrete parts.
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