Installation manual

SimradPI50
AboutNMEAinterfacesandtelegrams
TheSimradPI50cansendandreceiveinformationtoandfromseveraldifferent
peripherals.Alltransmissionstakeplaceastelegramswithdatasentences.Each
telegramhasadenedformatandlength.
TheNMEA0183standardisthemostcommonprotocolusedtoreceiveandtransmitdata
toandfromperipheralsensors.AparametricsentencestructureisusedforallNMEA
data.Thesentencestartwitha“$”delimiter,andrepresentthemajorityofapproved
sentencesdenedbythestandard.Thissentencestructure,withdelimitedanddened
datales,isthepreferredmethodforconveyinginformation.
FormoreinformationabouttheNMEAstandard,theformatandthedatasentences,refer
totheirofcialpublications.TheirdocumentNMEA1083-Standardforinterfacing
marineelectronicdevicesexplainstheformatsindetail.Thedocumentcanbeobtained
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Relatedtopics
•AboutNMEAonpage104
•Telegramsonpage104
•StandardNMEA0183communicationparametersonpage105
•Sentencestructureonpage105
Externalinterfaces
ThissectiondescribeshowtosetupthevariousinterfacesprovidedbythePI50.The
interfacesaresetuptotransmitand/orreceiveinformationbymeansofEthernetand/or
seriallines.
Topics
•HowtosetupthePIsensordataoutputonpage56
•HowtosetuptheSimradITITrawlsysteminterfaceonpage58
•HowtosetuptheSimradechosounderinputonpage59
•Howtosetupthenavigationsysteminterfaceonpage61
HowtosetupthePIsensordataoutput
ThePI50willprovidePIsensorinformationonanoutputline.
→PSIMP-D1PISensordataonpage112
Therststep(withsub-steps)inthisprocedureexplainshowtodothephysicalcabling.
TheremainingstepsdescribehowtosetuptheinterfaceinthePI50software.
1ConnectthePI50totheperipheralsystemusingaserialline.
aLocateafreeserialportthatcanbeusedforthiscommunication.
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