PLUTO-GPS-SIM Win32

PLUTO-GPS-SIM Win32 generates a GPS baseband signal IQ data stream, which is then transmitted by the software-defined radio (SDR) platform ADALM-Pluto.

Project based on gps-sdr-sim.

Linux version

Generating the GPS signal

The user is able to assign a static location directly through the command line.

The user also specifies the GPS satellite constellation through a GPS broadcast ephemeris file. The daily GPS broadcast ephemeris file (brdc) is a merge of the individual site navigation files into one. The archive for the daily file is:

ftp://cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gnss/data/daily/

These files are then used to generate the simulated pseudorange and Doppler for the GPS satellites in view. This simulated range data is then used to generate the digitized I/Q samples for the GPS signal which are then feed into ADALM-Pluto SDR to transmit the GPS L1 frequency.

The simulation start time can be specified if the corresponding set of ephemerides is available. Otherwise the first time of ephemeris in the RINEX navigation file is selected.

Build instructions

Dependencies

1. Download ADALM-Pluto drivers for Windows: https://wiki.analog.com/university/tools/pluto/drivers/windows
2. Download libiio for Windows: https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio
3. Download libad9361 32-bit for Windows: https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libad9361-iio

Building with Visual Studio

4. Open as Visual Studio project using pluto-gps-sim.sln.
5. Build as Debug or Release.

Requirements

5. Copy DLL's from libiio and libad9361 to output folder (Debug or Release) or system32 folder.
6. Requires a copy of zcat.exe either in output folder (Debug or Release) or somewhere referenced by PATH variable.

❗ Tested on Windows 7 only. Builds also as x64 target.

Usage

pluto-gps-sim [options]
Options:
  -e <gps_nav>     RINEX navigation file for GPS ephemerides (required)
  -f               Pull actual RINEX navigation file from NASA FTP server
  -c <location>    ECEF X,Y,Z in meters (static mode) e.g. 3967283.15,1022538.18,4872414.48
  -l <location>    Lat,Lon,Hgt (static mode) e.g. 30.286502,120.032669,100
  -t <date,time>   Scenario start time YYYY/MM/DD,hh:mm:ss
  -T <date,time>   Overwrite TOC and TOE to scenario start time (use ```now``` for actual time)
  -s <frequency>   Sampling frequency [Hz] (default: 2600000)
  -i               Disable ionospheric delay for spacecraft scenario
  -v               Show details about simulated channels
  -A <attenuation> Set TX attenuation [dB] (default -20.0)
  -B <bw>          Set RF bandwidth [MHz] (default 5.0)
  -U <uri>         ADALM-Pluto URI (eg. usb:1.2.5)
  -N <network>     ADALM-Pluto network IP or hostname (default pluto.local)

Set static mode location:

> pluto-gps-sim -l 38.0,24.0,300 -e brdc.n -T now -A 0.0 -U usb:3.5.5

Set TX attenuation:

> pluto-gps-sim -e brdc.n -A -30.0

Default -20.0dB. Applicable range 0.0dB to -80.0dB in 0.25dB steps.

Set RF bandwidth:

> pluto-gps-sim -e brdc.n -B 3.0

Default 3.0MHz. Applicable range 1.0MHz to 5.0MHz

Transmitting the samples

The TX port of a particular SDR platform is connected to the GPS receiver under test through a DC block and a fixed 50-60dB attenuator.

License

Copyright © 2018 Mictronics Distributed under the MIT License.