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Design and implementation of a real-time three-frequency COMPASS software receiver

  • Weihua Xie*
  • , Jun Zhang
  • , Chao Xie
  • , Qian Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing Satellite Navigation Center

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

GNSS software-defined receiver is of importance in satellite navigation system, especially in the fields of receiver design and satellite navigation system scheme validating. The general scheme of COMPASS software receiver has been proposed, and the main software functional modules were designed using XML language. A real-time software receiver with 12 channels on PC platform has been implemented, which can process COMPASS B1/B2/B3 C (civil) code signal. The receiver can be capable of post-processing datasets from collection hardware or real-time processing data stream through PCI bus interface. A lot of performance improvement approaches have been proposed to enhance the speed of the software receiver, which include computational platform choosing, acquisition and correlator arithmetic optimization, program code optimization with SIMD instructions on CPU and CUDA instructions on GPU. Using this methods, the software receiver can reach real-time processing capacity under 80 MHz sampling rate and 2 bit quantization conditions. The positioning results show that the software receiver's three-dimensional positioning accuracy is superior to 10 m under 95 % confidences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChina Satellite Navigation Conference, CSNC 2013 - Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationBeiDou/GNSS Navigation Applications - Test and Assessment Technology - User Terminal Technology
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages585-596
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783642373978
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event4th China Satellite Navigation Conference, CSNC 2013 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 13 May 201317 May 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume243 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference4th China Satellite Navigation Conference, CSNC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period13/05/1317/05/13

Keywords

  • COMPASS navigation system
  • Real time
  • Software receiver
  • Speed optimization
  • XML language

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