Navman’s Jupiter 12 Global Positioning System
(GPS) module is a single board, 12 parallel
channel receiver that is intended as a component
for an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
product. The receiver continuously tracks all visible
satellites, providing accurate satellite positioning
data. Jupiter 12 is designed for high performance
and maximum flexibility in a wide range of OEM
applications including handhelds, panel mounts,
sensors, and in-vehicle automotive products.
The highly integrated digital receiver uses the
Zodiac chipset composed of two custom SiRF
devices: the CX74051 RF Front-End, and the
CX11577 Scorpio Baseband Processor (BP).
These two custom chips, together with memory
devices and a minimum of external components,
form a complete low power, high-performance,
high reliability GPS receiver solution for OEMs.
Different module configurations allow the OEM
to design for multi-voltage operation and dead
reckoning navigation that uses vehicle sensors in
the absence of GPS signals. Each configuration
provides different options for different types of
antenna connectors (refer to table 1-1).
must be selected at the time of ordering and is not
available for field retrofitting.
The 12-channel architecture provides rapid TTFF
under all startup conditions. While the best TTFF
performance is achieved when time of day and
current position estimates are provided to the
receiver, the flexible signal acquisition system uses
all available information to provide a rapid TTFF.
Acquisition is guaranteed under all initialisation
conditions as long as paths to the satellites are not
obscured. The receiver supports 2D positioning
when fewer than four satellites are available or
when required by operating conditions. Altitude
information required for 2D operation is assumed
by the receiver or may be provided by the OEM
application.
The Jupiter 12 receiver decodes and processes
signals from all visible GPS satellites. These
satellites, in various orbits around the Earth,
broadcast Radio Frequency (RF) ranging codes,
Figure 1-1 Jupiter 12 GPS receiver
(top view, shown approx. actual size)
timing information, and navigation data messages.
The receiver uses all available signals to produce
a highly accurate navigation solution that can be
used in a wide variety of end product applications.
The all-in-view tracking of the Jupiter receiver
provides robust performance in applications that
require high vehicle dynamics or that operate in
areas of high signal blockage such as dense urban
centres.
The Jupiter receiver is packaged on a miniature
printed circuit board with a metallic RF enclosure
on one side (see figures 1-1 and 1-2). The
receiver is available in several configurations.
The configuration and type of antenna connector
Part No.*ModelAntenna
TU35-D410-021 Jupiter 12, +3.3–5.0 V autosensing, standard operationright angle OSX
TU35-D410-031 Jupiter 12, +3.3–5.0 V autosensing, standard operationstraight OSX
Figure 1-2 Jupiter 12 GPS receiver
(bottom view, shown approx. actual size)
TU35-D410-041 Jupiter 12, +3.3–5.0 V autosensing, standard operationright angle SMB
TU35-D420-021 Jupiter 12 DR, +3.3– 5.0 V autosensing with dead reckoning right angle OSX
(*) Contact Navman for the latest revision part numbers and optional GPS antenna connector.
Communication with the receiver is established
through one of two asynchronous serial I/O ports
that support full duplex data communication. The
receiver’s serial port provides navigation data and
accepts commands from the OEM application
in proprietary Navman binary message format.
NMEA formatted message protocol is also
available with software and/or hardware selection.
microprocessor and the required GPS-specific
signal processing hardware. Memory and other
external supporting components complete the
receiver navigation system.
Product applications
The Jupiter 12 receiver is suitable for a wide range
of modular
OEM GPS design applications such as:
Receiver architecture
The functional architecture of the basic Jupiter
12 receiver is shown in figure 1-3. The functional
architecture of Jupiter 12 DR, with dead-reckoning
circuitry, is shown in figure 1-4.
The receiver design is based on the SiRF Zodiac
chipset: the RF1A and the Scorpio Baseband
Processor (BP). The RF1A contains all the RF
down-conversion and amplification circuitry,
and presents the In-Phase (I) and QuadraturePhase (Q) Intermediate Frequency (IF) sampled
data to the BP. The BP contains an integral
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post-select
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A/ D control
• automotive and vehicular transport
• marine navigation
• aviation
Figure 1-5 illustrates a design that might be used
to integrate the receiver with an applications
processor that drives peripheral devices such as a
display and keyboard.
Communication between the applications
processor and the receiver is through the serial
data interface.