gpsL1CCodes

Generate ranging and overlay codes for GPS L1C

Since R2024a

Syntax

[L1CD,L1CP,L1CO] = gpsL1CCodes(PRNID)

Description

[L1CD,L1CP,L1CO] = gpsL1CCodes(PRNID) generates ranging codes and overlay codes, as specified in the modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) L1 civil (L1C) standard IS-GPS-800 section 3.2.2 [1], for the satellite pseudo-random noise (PRN) indices specified in PRNID. The function returns the ranging codes for the data and pilot, L1CD and L1CP, respectively, and the overlay code L1CO.

For details on how to generate a GPS L1C waveform, see Generate GPS L1C Waveform.

Examples

Generate GPS L1C Codes

Generate the ranging codes and overlay codes for GPS L1C and Quasi-Zenith satellite system (QZSS) signals.

Generate GPS L1C Ranging and Overlay Codes

Specify the PRN IDs for the GPS satellites.

PRNID = [4; 70];

Generate the ranging and overlay codes for the set PRN IDs.

[l1cd,l1cp,l1co] = gpsL1CCodes(PRNID);

Generate QZSS Data Ranging Codes

Specify the PRN IDs reserved for QZSS satellites.

PRNID = [193:200];

Generate the data ranging codes for the set PRN IDs.

l1cd_qzss = gpsL1CCodes(PRNID);

Input Arguments

PRNID — GPS satellite PRN index

integer in range [1, 210] | vector of integers in range [1, 210]

GPS satellite PRN index, specified as one of these options.

• Integer in the range [1, 210] — Use this option to input a PRN index for a single satellite.

• Vector of integers in the range [1, 210] — Use this option to input PRN indices for multiple satellites.

For details on how to generate these ranging and overlay codes for a specific PRNID, refer to these tables in GPS L1C standard IS-GPS-800 [1].

• PRN ID in the range [1, 63] — Table 3.2-2 for data and pilot ranging codes, and Table 3.2-3 for overlay codes.

• PRN ID in the range [64, 210] — Table 6.3-1 for additional data and pilot codes, and Table 6.3-2 for additional overlay codes.

Data Types: double | uint8

Output Arguments

L1CD — Data ranging codes

binary-valued matrix

Data ranging codes, returned as a matrix. The number of rows in the matrix, 10,230, corresponds to 10 milliseconds of the ranging code. The number of columns is equal to the length of PRNID.

Each column of L1CD contains the ranging code used to spread the data of the L1C satellite signal specified by the corresponding element of PRNID.

For details on how to generate a GPS L1C waveform, see Generate GPS L1C Waveform.

Data Types: logical

L1CP — Pilot ranging codes

binary-valued matrix

Pilot ranging codes, returned as a matrix. The number of rows in the matrix, 10,230, corresponds to 10 milliseconds of the ranging code. The number of columns is equal to the length of PRNID.

Each column of L1CP contains the ranging code used to spread the pilot of the L1C satellite signal specified by the corresponding element of PRNID.

For more information, see More About.

Data Types: logical

L1CO — Overlay code

binary-valued matrix

Overlay code, returned as a matrix. The number of rows in the matrix is 1,800 and the number of columns is equal to the length of PRNID.

Each column of L1CO contains the overlay code for the corresponding PRNID. Overlay code modulates the pilot ranging code.

For details on how to generate a GPS L1C waveform, see Generate GPS L1C Waveform.

Data Types: logical

More About

Generate GPS L1C Waveform

GPS L1C is a modernized civil navigation signal transmitted on the L1 band at 1575.42 MHz. GPS L1C uses the binary offset carrier (BOC) modulation scheme.

You can generate an L1C waveform by following these steps.

1. Generate the data at 100 bits per second and each bit is of 10 millisecond duration, as defined in IS-GPS-800.

2. L1C uses two types of ranging codes: a ranging code for the data (L1CD code) and a ranging code for the pilot (L1CP code). The chip rate of both the L1CD and L1CP codes is 1.023 mega chips per second with 10 milliseconds in length. Therefore, the number of chips before repeating is 10,230.

   Because one 10 millisecond data bit exactly matches the ranging code block size, one data bit is spread with one block of ranging code.

3. Spread the L1CD code with the user data bits to obtain the data component. The rate of the user data bits is 100 bits per second.

4. Spread the L1CP code with the overlay code (L1CO code) to obtain the pilot component. The rate of the L1CO code is 100 bits per second.

5. Modulate the data component by using BOC (1,1).

6. Modulate the pilot component by using the time-multiplexed BOC (TMBOC) modulation technique.

   The final IQ waveform formed is the GPS L1C waveform. For more information on TMBOC modulation, see GPS L1C Waveform Generation.

Alternatively, use gpsWaveformGenerator object to directly create a L1C waveform.

References

[1] IS-GPS-800, Rev:J. "NAVSTAR GPS Space Segment/User Segment L1C Interfaces." Aug 22, 2022.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation
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Version History

Introduced in R2024a