C94-M8P - User Guide
UBX-15031066 - R06
Advance Information
Evaluation
interfaces
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5
Evaluation interfaces
The C94-M8P application board provides the specified interfaces as mentioned in section 2, for configuration,
logging, and measurement.
J1: RS232 – UART M8P/Radio
J2: USB – M8P
J3: External battery / DC connector
J6: Debugger interface for radio module
J8: Test & Production interface
J8: UART & GNSS features
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Geofence and RTK status
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Interface to e.g. u-blox C027
J10: Indicator LEDs
Figure 11: C94-M8P Application Board
5.1
RS232/UART Interface
There are two purposes for the UART interface on the board:
For configuring the radio module with AT commands
On the Rover board, to log the data stream (RTCM messages) sent from the radio module to the GNSS
module
Before configuring the radio module, the UART output of the GNSS module needs to be disabled.
See section Appendix B for radio communication link configuration.
5.2
USB interface
The C94-M8P board provides one micro-A USB interface, which is used for:
Configuring the GNSS NEO-M8P-2 module
Logging data sent out from the GNSS module, including UBX, NMEA messages.
5.3
J8 connector
The J8 connector is the combined interface for monitoring the Geofence status output and the RTK status
output, and is also a connector for the UART.
Geofence status corresponds to pin 15 and the RTK status corresponds to pin 16 on the NEO-M8P-2
module.
Pin 13, pin 14, pin 20 and any of the GND pins are for connecting to u-blox C027 and other application
boards. It enables communication alternatives using u-blox cellular and short-range technologies.
J8
J2
J1
J3
J6
J10