Yoctopuce Yocto-GPS, User Manual

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1. Introduction
The Yocto-GPS module is a 60x20mm module equipped with a GNSS (GPS + GLONASS) receiver
which enables you to know the position of the receiver, its travel speed, and the current time. It
requires the use of an active external antenna with a connector at the U.FL standard.
The Yocto-GPS module
Yoctopuce thanks you for buying this Yocto-GPS and sincerely hopes that you will be satisfied with it.
The Yoctopuce engineers have put a large amount of effort to ensure that your Yocto-GPS is easy to
install anywhere and easy to drive from a maximum of programming languages. If you are
nevertheless disappointed with this module, do not hesitate to contact Yoctopuce support
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By design, all Yoctopuce modules are driven the same way. Therefore, user's guides for all the
modules of the range are very similar. If you have already carefully read through the user's guide of
another Yoctopuce module, you can jump directly to the description of the module functions.
1.1. Prerequisites
In order to use your Yocto-GPS module, you should have the following items at hand.
A computer
Yoctopuce modules are intended to be driven by a computer (or possibly an embedded
microprocessor). You will write the control software yourself, according to your needs, using the
information provided in this manual.
Yoctopuce provides software libraries to drive its modules for the following operating systems:
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android. Yoctopuce modules do not require installing any specific
system driver, as they leverage the standard HID driver
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provided with every operating system.
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