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Positioning Application: Does PosApp support BeiDou?

Environment/Versions
  • PosApp (SimGEN / SimREPLAYplus / SimREPLAY) v4-02 or later
  • GSS8000 (with BeiDou capability); minimum requirement
    • Firmware v2.31
    • FPGA rel 36
  • GSS6700 (with BeiDou feature enabled); minimum requirement
    • Firmware v3-00-06
    • FPGA rel 6.13
    • Has serial number starting '6120'
Answer
  • Spirent introduced the first support for BeiDou in PosApp v4-02 for the GSS8000 only
  • This release requires the user to provide their own navigation data message file
    • A matching almanac file is also essential
    • The scenario start time & date must also be set correctly
       
  • With v4-03 onwards PosApp also generates the navigation data directly
  • This gives more flexibility with
    • Scenario start time & date
    • The BeiDou constellation set-up
       
  • PosApp v4-03 SR02 will be the first release to support BeiDou on the GSS6700

Product : SimREPLAYplus,SimREPLAY,SimGEN,PosApp,GSS6700,GSS8000