Accelerating GNSS Software Receivers

Carles Fernández-Prades, Javier Arribas, Pau Closas

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Abstract:	This paper addresses both the efficiency and the portability of a computer program in charge of the baseband signal processing of a GNSS receiver. Efficiency, in this context, refers to optimizing the speed and memory requirements of the software receiver. Specifically, the interest is focused on how fast the software receiver can process the incoming stream of raw signal samples and, in particular, if signal processing up to the position fix can be executed in real-time (and how many channels the host computer executing the receiver application can sustain in parallel). This is achieved by applying the concept of parallelization at different abstraction levels. The paper describes strategies based on task, data and instructionlevel parallelism, as well as actual implementations released under an open source license and the results obtained with different commercially available computing platforms. At the same time, the proposed solution also addresses portability, understood as the usability of the same software in different computing environments.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2016) September 12 - 16, 2016 Oregon Convention Center Portland, Oregon
Pages:	44 - 61
Cite this article:	Fernández-Prades, Carles, Arribas, Javier, Closas, Pau, "Accelerating GNSS Software Receivers," Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2016), Portland, Oregon, September 2016, pp. 44-61. https://doi.org/10.33012/2016.14576
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