OTA chamber to measure the sensitivity of GPS devices OTA chamber to measure the sensitivity of GPS devices Sensitivity is one of the most important tests to measure the capabilities of GPS receivers. In fact, many consumer-grade GPS receivers usually only perform RF testing in the final receiver product test. Under high standards, the sensitivity test defines the minimum satellite power level so that the receiver can still track and locate the satellites overhead. One might think that GPS receivers need to obtain high gain through several layers of low noise amplifiers to amplify the signal to achieve the appropriate power level. Unfortunately, using low noise amplifiers to increase signal power will also reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. In this way, when the RF power level of the GPS signal is reduced, the signal-to-noise ratio will also be reduced, and the receiver will eventually be unable to track the satellite. The so-called sensitivity of a GPS receiver refers to the minimum input signal strength required for the GPS receiver to work properly, generally expressed in dBm. According to the different working states of the GPS receiver, sensitivity is divided into cold start sensitivity, acquisition sensitivity, tracking sensitivity, etc. As the name suggests, acquisition sensitivity represents the minimum power level at which the receiver can complete position positioning. Tracking sensitivity is the minimum power level at which the receiver can track a satellite. In this paper, we propose a spatial measurement method for tracking sensitivity measurement that is different from the traditional conductive method. First, we will discuss the necessity of the spatial measurement method from the general structure of the GPS receiver. In the general design, the GPS receiver has the following pipeline structure: [pic] Figure 1 As shown in Figure 1, the front end is an active receiving antenna with LNA, followed by the RF front end containing an LNA and a bandpass filter, and finally a GPS chip. It can be seen that the sensitivity of the receiver is affected by two aspects: 1) the performance of the entire GPS RF channel, including antenna gain, channel gain, channel noise coefficient, etc.; 2) GPS baseband algorithm performance. In addition, the sensitivity is also affected by factors such as A/D quantization loss. The sensitivity of the receiving chip nominally stated in the industry refers to the performance of the baseband algorithm, which refers to the baseband algorithm\'s requirements for the input carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N0, in dBHz), but the industry generally uses dBm to express the sensitivity performance of the GPS receiving chip. Without considering any loss in the RF channel, the relationship between the carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N0) and the input signal strength (S) is: C/N0=S-……
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