Product Info

LTE Module Series
EC21 Hardware Design
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4 GNSS Receiver
4.1. General Description
EC21 includes a fully integrated global navigation satellite system solution that supports Gen8C-Lite of
Qualcomm (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo and QZSS).
EC21 supports standard NMEA-0183 protocol, and outputs NMEA sentences at 1Hz data update rate via
USB interface by default.
By default, EC21 GNSS engine is switched off. It has to be switched on via AT command. For more details
about GNSS engine technology and configurations, please refer to document [3].
4.2. GNSS Performance
The following table shows the GNSS performance of EC21.
Table 25: GNSS Performance
Parameter
Description
Conditions
Typ.
Unit
Sensitivity
(GNSS)
Cold start
Autonomous
-146
dBm
Reacquisition
Autonomous
-157
dBm
Tracking
Autonomous
-157
dBm
TTFF
(GNSS)
Cold start
@open sky
Autonomous
35
s
XTRA enabled
18
s
Warm start
@open sky
Autonomous
26
s
XTRA enabled
2.2
s