Overview

This SmartGPS add-on board is designed for use with MikroElektronika's PIC, dsPIC, AVR, 8051 and ARM development and prototyping boards.

LEA-5S GPS Module

The LEA-5S is powered by the high performance 50-channel u-blox 5 technology. A 32-channel acquisition engine with over one million effective correlators is capable of massive parallel searches. This enables a Time To First Fix (TTFF) of less than one second, while long correlation/dwell times make possible an acquisition and tracking sensitivity of -160dBm. An available functionality is SuperSense® KickStart, a new feature enabling accelerated acquisition of weak signals. Once acquired, satellites are passed on to a power-optimized dedicated tracking engine. This arrangement allows the GPS and GALILEO engine to simultaneously track up to 16 satellites while searching for new ones. u-blox 5's advanced jamming suppression mechanism and innovative RF architecture provide a high level of immunity to jamming, ensuring maximum GPS and GALILEO performance.

Features

• Based on LEA-5S GPS module.
• High-performance u-blox 5 technology.
• A-GPS support, -160dBm high sensitivity and an innovative jamming-resistant RF architecture.
• Supports passive and active antennas.
• Supplied with active GPS antenna.
• On-board voltage regulator and jumper allows for operation with 3.3V and 5V microcontrollers.
• Use with any microcontroller with UART interface.
• Connects directly to MikroElektronika's PIC, dsPIC, AVR, 8051 and ARM development and prototyping boards.
• Supported by example programs supplied with MikroElektronika's mikroBASIC, mikroC and mikroPascal PRO compilers.