I spent a bit of time poking around the SkyTraq web site on the weekend. I couldn't find a datasheet for the chip on the LTE-Lite - perhaps it's so new that SkyTraq has not put together the datasheet yet.
Under "timing", they only list the Venus638LPx-T, which is a older (2011 copyright on the datasheet) 65-channel receiver. The LTE-Lite documentation mentions 65 channels somewhere too, suggesting that the LTE-Lite started out using this chip. Under navigation receivers, Skytraq lists the newer (2013) Venus838FLPx with 167 channels. So I would assume that the Venus838LPx-T-L used in the LTE-Lite is the same 167-channel hardware with timing firmware, and that the LTE-Lite switched from the 638LPx-T to the 838LPx-T-L sometime during development. - Dave On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:12 PM, S. Jackson via time-nuts < [email protected]> wrote: > Now that the cat is out of the bag - notice that on these boards we used > the special -T timing version which is more than twice as expensive than > the > normal navigation version used by others.. I personally use the uBlox > software because the Skytrack software had a habit of crashing itself and > my > computer from time to time.. > > > In a message dated 11/25/2014 14:02:41 Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Here is a link to a company that at least shares details of the SkyTraq > venus 8 chip on the LTE-Lite. The actual skytraq sites is pretty useless. > > > https://www.tindie.com/products/smokingresistor/venus838flpx-gps-breakout-bo > ard/ > > There is a program that will read the nema codes and such also. > Have used it and its not better or worse then ublox. A bit of humor it > only > ever shows Asia for the ground track. > > The venus 8 seems to have a lot of capability. Not sure how to get to it, > but the fact is for the LTE Lite its not needed. It has a single job to > perform. > It would be curious to obtain the board tindie sells because it supports > all of the satellites. But have to say thats a project for another day > wayyyy down the list. > But at least you can have some further technical details for the system. > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
