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[DPRG] NMEA commands to configure a SiRFstarIII

Subject: [DPRG] NMEA commands to configure a SiRFstarIII
From: dpa dpa at io.isem.smu.edu
Date: Tue Mar 25 11:10:48 CDT 2008

Hi Dean,

Very nice.  Thanks for the writeup.

So with this arrangement you are getting gps position updates at 5Hz?

dpa


!!Dean wrote:
> I did a quick write-up on how I use SiRF NMEA commands to configure  
> my GPS module to communicate at 19200 baud and only send the 2 NMEA  
> sentence types that I use for GPS data input to my robot.  Cutting  
> out the unused sentence types reduces the number of UART receive  
> interrupts by 69%!  This helps keep the CPU load down so I have  
> enough processing time for other tasks.
> 
> http://deanandara.com/Argonaut/Sensors/Gps/ConfiguringSirfStarIII.html
> 
> Here's where I learned to do all this:
> http://www.usglobalsat.com/downloads/NMEA_commands.pdf
> 
> (This information only applies to SiRFstarIII chips)
> 
>  !!Dean
>

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