C101-D9C - User guide
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C101-D9C standalone operation
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C101-D9C standalone operation
This section provides some quicksteps to enable NEO-D9C standalone operation and connecting via
u-center (see u-center user guide [3]).
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Connect the supplied L6 band antenna to the RF SMA connector.
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Connect the USB to a Windows PC, this will power the board. The FTDI and USB drivers will be
installed automatically from Windows Update when you connect the board for the first time.
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The power LED will turn on in blue color.
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Start the Device Manager utility from Windows. Two new ports will be visible under the Ports tab:
the USB Serial Device is the Native USB port and the USB Serial Port is the FTDI USB bridge port,
as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 4: Windows Device Manager Ports identifications
Figure 5: FTDI USB bridge and USB ports properties
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Start u-center and connect to one of the COM ports. If you are using the FTDI USB bridge, make
sure the baud rate in u-center is set to 9600.
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Poll UBX-MON-VER message and check the content as shown in Figure 6 .
Figure 6: UBX-MON-VER message
