Course 214: Assisted GPS: Instant GPS and Indoor GPS

All course materials this year will be provided in a more portable,
secure electronic PDF format. We've heard your requests to lighten the
weight of travel home by eliminating heavy, spiral bound paper notebooks.
We want to provide a more dynamic & beneficial experience for all tutorial/course attendees. On-the-fly notations can be typed during your class using
the "Sticky Note" feature of Acrobat Reader 9 (provided for your convenience).
A laptop is required.

Take your notes To-Go and have them wherever you go.

Thank you to all attendees for your continued support and feedback over the past 25 years!

Instructor	Dr. Frank van Diggelen, Broadcom
Objectives	This one-day course follows the content of Chapters 2, 3, 6, and 9 of a text-book on Assisted GPS, written by the instructor. All attendees will receive a CD with Excel worksheets for: GPS Link budget, Front End worksheet, Standard GPS SNR worksheet, and High Sensitivity SNR worksheet. During the class we will work problems in the Excel worksheets, on your laptop (strongly recommended) and on a projected worksheet that everyone can use.
Prerequisites	Familiarity with GPS and basic receiver operation, such as that provided by NavtechGPS Course 111, Course 122, and Course 356. Familiarity with engineering terms and data representation.
Course Schedule	8:30 - Motivation & Standard GPS Review GPS in mobile phones, PNDs and PDAs. E911, location based services. How GPS was designed to work. GPS signal power, link-budget. Standard GPS - why it doesn't work indoors. 9:45 - Acquisition and Assistance Acquisition & assistance overview Frequency & code-delay search space Industry standards MS assisted and MS based GPS A-GPS frequency & time assistance Frequency/Code search with Assisted GPS 11:00 - High Sensitivity I Standard GPS receiver design Architecture Front-end analysis dBm & dB-Hz Correlation, coherent integration & baseband gain SNR worksheet 12:00 - Lunch on your own 1:30 - High Sensitivity II - High-sensitivity rec'r design - coherent integration Architecture Correlator size vs. integration time Coherent integration Implementation losses: IF, quantization, code alignment, frequency mismatch, data bit alignment SNR worksheet with long coherent integration 2:45 - High Sensitivity III - High-sensitivity rec'r design - non coherent integration Limit of coherent integration I&Q channels and non-coherent integration Squaring loss Correlator size vs sensitivity High-Sensitivity SNR worksheet Achievable sensitivity law Signal strengths in practice, and attenuation through different materials 4:00 - Other technologies for indoor location Other satellites: SBAS, Glonass, Galileo, Compass, QZSS, IRNSS Wi-Fi AFLT, NMR, MRL & Cell-ID Digital TV, Pseudolites & FM IMES MEMS 5:00 - Course Ends
Continuing Education Units	0.6 (6 hours)
Materials You Will Keep	• A USB Drive with PDF electronic course notes used during the course. Bringing a laptop is highly recommended; power access will be provided. • A copy of the following text: A-GPS: Assisted GPS, GNSS, and SBAS, by F. van Diggelen, Artech House. (This book is used during the course.) Return to top of page