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General Description
Thank you for choosing Tersus GNSS. This log and command reference book is for
Precis-BX306, Precis-BX306Z and Precis-BX316 GNSS RTK boards and they have
companion documents to this reference manual with details on the hardware operation.
Afterwards, this document will be your primary reference guide for commands and
logs.
Current FW supports 1Hz output only, higher frequency will be supported by future
FW, please contact Tersus support for the latest information.
1.1
Output Format
Tersus GNSS systems support NMEA0183 format, RTCM 2.X, RTCM 3.X and
private observation format.
1.2
NMEA Sentence
The National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) standard defines an electrical
interface and data protocol for communications between marine instrumentation. The
solution output of Tersus GNSS systems follow NMEA0183 format, so that it can be
easily integrated with host devices.
1.2.1
General Sentence Format
All data is transmitted in the form of sentences. Only printable ASCII characters are
allowed, plus CR (carriage return) and LF (line feed). Each sentence starts with a "$"
sign and ends with <CR><LF>. Tersus GNSS systems support talker sentences.
1.2.2
Talker Sentences
The general format for a talker sentence is given below.
$ttsss, d1, d2 ...*xx<CR><LF>
Each sentence begins with a '$' and ends with a carriage return/line feed sequence and
can be no longer than 80 characters of visible text (plus the line terminators). The data
fields in a single line are separated by commas. If data for a field is not available, the