EVK-M8BZOE User Guide
UBX-17053592 - R03
Early Production Information
Getting Started
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1.
Make sure the “Interface Switch” is at RS-232 / USB side (and not SPI side).
2.
Connect the jumpers J4, J7 and J6 as above (There is a white box drawn around the pins of these jumpers).
3.
Connect the evaluation board to a PC by micro USB cable and / or RS-232.
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If a USB cable is used the device is powered by the USB cable.
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A USB connection creates a virtual COM port to the PC.
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If an RS-232 interface is used, the device can be powered by USB cable or by the digital connector
connecting 5 V to pin 2 and GND to pin 18.
4.
Connect the active antenna to the “Active” (Active antenna input) or the simulator to the “Passive” input
(Simulator input).
5.
Start the u-center GNSS Evaluation Software and select the corresponding COM port and baud rate, 9600
Bd by default (refer to the
u-center User Guide
[4] for more information).
3.3
Interface default configuration
Parameter
Description
Remark
RS-232, Input
UBX and NMEA protocol at 9’600 Bd
RS-232, Output
UBX and NMEA protocol at 9’600 Bd
Only NMEA messages are activated by default
USB, Input
UBX and NMEA protocol
USB, Output
UBX and NMEA protocol
Only NMEA messages are activated by default
Table 3: Default configuration
There is also SPI, DDC and UART interface available for debugging and design-in purposes on the digital
connector J1.
