Abstract—GNSS systems are globally available systems used for positioning and navigation. GNSS receivers are widely used as a standard frequency source for time and frequency measurements. So, a lot of efforts have been made in the design, simulation and real-time implementation of the GNSS receivers. The efforts that were made were to transform the construction of the GNSS receivers from hardware to software by using SDR technology. This facilitates debugging and redesigning these complicated systems. In this paper, the tracking phase of the GPS receiver was completely simulated and implemented on FPGA using the same platform and through a graphical programming language, which is the Xilinx System Generator. So, this paper proves that large systems can be simulated and prototyped through the same platform.

 

Index Terms—Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), GPS receiver, tracking phase, Software Defined Radio (SDR), Xilinx System Generator (XSG), FPGA Implementation

Cite: M. El Hawary, G. G. Hamza, Abdelhaliem Zekry, and I. Motawie, "FPGA Implementation of Tracking Phase of the GPS Receiver Using XSG," Journal of Communications vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 367-371, April 2020. Doi: 10.12720/jcm.15.4.367-371

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