Jackson Labs Technologies has announced the latest upgrades to its GPS simulator and transcoder product line.
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The latest version of freeware application SimCon rev. 1.20 is now available. New features include:
- Single-button GPS Week Number Rollover testing to test when GPS receivers will fail (hardly any will fail April 6; most older units will fail sometime between now and 2025).
- Single-button GPS receiver leap second testing: Some GPS receivers might have an issue operating properly when the next leap second happens after the upcoming April 6 week number rollover, and SimCon makes that trivially easy to check.
- Additional support for modern external GNSS receiver NMEA sentences for transcoding such as $ GNGGA, $ GLGGA, etc.
- Improvements in GPS receiver switchover performance when switching from a fully GPS-denied area (running from INS) to GPS-available while transcoding in aircraft and vehicles.
- This was fine-tuned based on extensive flight tests with the Navy/Air force.
- Added support for the new Micro-Transcoder with its new Eval board.
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Jackson Labs also announced a new product line, the PhaseStation ADEV Frequency Stability phase noise test system (signal source analyzer).
The test system is:
- useful in testing signal performance in a host of products such as GPS or GNSS disciplined oscillators.
- useful to qualify and evaluate local oscillator (LO) performance for GNSS receiver design, including GPS TCXO evaluation and parametrization.
- stability measurements of 1PPS and arbitrary frequency outputs from GNSS receivers
- useful in optimization of GNSS receiver Kalman filter design via the GNSS receiver 1PPS output signals.
- automatically synchronizes and syntonizes (calibrates) the internal dual oscillator DOCXO option to external GNSS receivers via 1PPS input.
