GPS Receiver
A1037-A
8 Use of Antenna
8.1 Connection of RF Signal
The ANT pin is used to connect the receiver with the GPS antenna. The design of
the antenna connection has to be done strictly according to RF design rules. A 50
Ω
PCB strip line is required. The following drawings shall explain the guidelines. A
major rule is to keep the strip line as short as possible. Additionally, antenna ground
(GNDANT) should be routed to the ground plane of the PCB (the ground plane is
on a lower PCB layer) by via as demonstrated in the drawing.
Figure 9: Antenna connector strip line A1037-A
In order to gain the impedance of 50
Ω
, the width of the strip line needs to be calcu-
lated. It depends on the thickness or height of the PCB layer (both parameters are
shown in following drawing). For our calculation, we assume that the PCB material
is FR4.
Figure 10: Strip line parameters A1037-A
In this case, the width should be about 1.8 times the height of the PCB:
W = 1.8 x H
In our example, we would get a width of W = 1.8 x 0.8mm = 1.44mm.
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