A Portable Positioning System Based on SOPC Technology

Author

Nie, Zedong ; Fang, Kangling ; Xin, Xu

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Wuhan Univ. of Sci. & Technol.

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

16-20 2006

Abstract

In this paper, a novel implementation of a portable positioning system based on system-on-a-programmable chip (SOPC) technology is proposed. SOPC technology integrates a CPU, memory, I/O interface on a single FPGA that makes this system have many advantages such as portability, high performance to price ratio, low cost, easy to update and so on. Due to the GPS signal is easy to be blocked in urban areas and traditional combined positioning system is too large to take, a combined positioning technology using GPS and digital compass is applied to this portable system. At last, experiments results demonstrate the feasibility of this portable positioning system

Keywords

Global Positioning System; field programmable gate arrays; system-on-chip; FPGA; GPS; SOPC technology; digital compass; portable positioning system; system-on-a-programmable chip; Costs; Educational institutions; Field programmable gate arrays; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Information science; Internet telephony; Monitoring; Programmable logic arrays; Satellite navigation systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, 2006 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9736-3

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9736-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.2006.346112

Filename

4129804