Designing a GPS receiver: algorithms, processors and co-processors
Madhav P. Desai
Wednesday 28 Novembre 2018, 12:30
Salón de Grados
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Universidad CEU San Pablo
Madrid
Short summary
Talk on the design and fabrication of a GPS receptor.
Summary
A GPS receiver is used to calculate position velocity and time coordinates based on signals transmitted by a system of satellites in orbit around the earth. In GPS, the satellites are distinguished by the use of orthogonal spreading codes, all being transmitted in a single radio frequency band. The receiver needs to acquire signals from visible satellites by correlating received signals with these spreading codes.
Acquired satellite signals have to be tracked and the data being transmitted from the satellite needs to be decoded to obtain the position/velocity/time of the receiver. The design of a base band digital receiver which can acquire and track the available
GPS satellites will be described. The receiver design is a case study in the use of a general-purpose processor in conjunction with a custom co-processor and the partitioning of tasks across these two subsystems. The custom co-processor is needed to implement the large number of correlations that need to be performed during acquisition and tracking. The evolution of such a receiver design and
the trade-offs involved will be explained.
About the speaker
Madhav P. Desai holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and a PhD degree from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. During the period 1992-1996 he was with the Semiconductor Engineering Group of Digital Equipment Corporation in Hudson, MA, where he worked as Principal Engineer developing two of the fastest CMOS microprocessors in history. Currently, he is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research lines cover VLSI design, circuits and systems, and combinatorial algorithms.
INF./REGISTRATION: The talk is free, but it is necessary to register emailing to gabriel.caffarena@ceu.es.
ORGANIZER
Escuela Politécnica Superior. Universidad San Pablo CEU / Departamento Tecnologías de la Información
