Pseudorandom sequence generator for a global navigation satellite system signal receiver

Abstract

The invention relates generally to the radio navigation field and may be applied to design of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Receivers, and particularly of GNSS GPS (USA), Galileo (EU), Glonass (Russia), Beidou (China), QZSS (Japan), IRNSS (India), and augmentation systems SBAS (different states). In the invention, the function of generating various PRN codes is repositioned from numerous tracking channels of multi-frequency, multi-constellation GNSS receiver to a shared PRN code generator unit, which serves in series all tracking channels. Such centralization of the PRN codes generation function enables a significant complexity reduction when the GNSS receiver includes a great number of tracking channels. A sufficient speed performance of the shared PRN code generator is achieved due to transfer of the PRN code lines from the shared PRN code generator to the receiver tracking channels via a dedicated parallel bus. Speed performance requirements to the dedicated parallel bus of the shared PRN code generator is kept moderate by a special number of symbols choice of PRN code lines thus providing uniformity of tracking channels requests to get new code lines. Use of several alternate means of PRN code lines forming: PRN Code ROM, PRN Code RAM, LFSR-based and one-shot PRN code generators—permits choosing optimal generation means for each type of GNSS signals.

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