Holux- CompactGPS

Product Overview:

Getting lost in the jungle can get a little hairy, even if it is the urban jungle. Holux's CompactGPS (Global Positioning System) Plug-&-Play modular allows your Windows Powered Pocket PCs to become a portable navigation device - gives you the advantage you need to go to or from any location in the world. Holux's Pocket PC mobile accessories let you do more than just organize - they expand the functionality and usage of the PDA you know today.

With advanced technology capable of utilizing signals from the 27 satellites that ring the globe, Holux's CompactGPS is capable of acquiring accurate data to a wide range of applications from many industrial sectors including transportation, marine, aviation, surveying and commercial markets.

Holux's CompactGPS is in CompactFlash form-factor which is a popular form factor for both new and old generation of Windows powered Pocket or Handheld PCs. It is designed for easy integration with a wide range of navigation software applications. Featuring all view tracking capability, CompactGPS provides robust performance in applications that require high vehicle dynamics and high signal blockage operations. This special designed GPS card is suitable for integration in a variety of OEM products.
With 12-Channel architecture technology, Holux's CompactGPS card can provide rapid Time-First-Fix (TIFF) under all startup conditions for fast data acquisition and reacquisition. Tom Minimize TIFF followed by a power down, the CompactGPS with built-in battery can maintain power to the on-board Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) and Real-Time Clock (RTC) for periods following the loss of primary power. This will assure the reduction of possible TIFF and prolong the battery life of your devices. By adding one inexpensive CompactFlash adapter, the card becomes a full-fledged PC card - to be used with most notebook computers and instruments with PCMCIA slots.

Features:
  •   12 parallel satellite-tracking channels for fast acquisition and reacquisition.
  •   High speed signal acquisition using 1920 time/frequency search channels.
  •   Built-in hardware Tracking Loop Processor WAAS/EGNOS Demodulator.
  •   Low power consumption with Star II / LP chipset.
  •   Built-in rechargeable battery for memory and RTC backup and for fast Time to
  • First Fix(TTFF).
  •   Support NMEA0183 v2.2 data protocol and SiRF binary code.
  •   Trickle Power Enabled for Power Saving.
  •   Enhanced algorithms -SnapLock and SnapStart provide superior navigation
  • performance in urban, canyon and foliage environments.
  •   Support CF card type I connector suitable PDA, Hand Held PC or PC device.


Technical Specifications:
  •   Tracks up to 12 satellites.
  •   Receiver: L1, C/A code
  • <>  Snap Start: <3 sec(at < 25 minutes off period).
  •   Update rate: 1 HZ.
  • <>  Acquisition time
    • <>    Reacquisition 0.1sec.averaged
        Hot start 8 sec., averaged
        Warm start 38 sec., averaged
        Cold start 45 sec., averaged
  • Position accuracy:
    • Non DGPS (Differential GPS)
      Position 5-25 m CEP without SA
      Velocity 0.1 m/sec, without SA
      Time 1 usec sync GPS Time
      • <>EGNOS/WAAS
      Position
             <  2.2 m, horizontal 95% of time
             <  5 m, vertical 95% of time
  • Dynamic Conditions:
Altitude 18,000 meters (60,000 feet )max

Velocity 515 meters / second (700 knots) max

Acceleration 4 G, max

Jerk 20 meters/second, max
  • Antenna Type: Built in Active Antenna
  • Minimum signal tracked: -175dBW
  • Dimension: 91×50×20 mm
  • Weight : < 50g
  • LED function:
power On/Off and Navigation
Update Indication

  •   Operation Temperature:
-10 to +70
  •   Store Temperature:
-45 to +85
  •   Operation Humidity:
5% to 95% No condensing.
  •   Power consumption
<80mA at 3.3V+/-10% input
  •   Protocol and interface:
  • NMEA output protocol: V.2.2
Baud rate: 4800 bps
Data bit: 8
Parity: N
Stop bit: 1
Output format:
Standard: GGA,GSA,GSV, RMC.
Optional: GLL,VTG,or SiRF
binary
  • NMEA Input messages

NMEA/SiRF Binary Set altitude,
position, date & time, select output
messages and rates
  •   Interface:
H/W: Compact Flash - CF type I
S/W: Emulated COM Port 1-8 ( Auto Select)


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