“We are in Testing Times” A phrase being used more and more these days in relation to many things. However ‘Testing Times’ is also a concern to anyone responsible for planning, resourcing and carrying out GNSS testing. We all want our products to be designed, developed and out to the market in ever-shorter timescales. The time taken to perform important testing is often significant. How great it would be to be able to reduce this time, make things more efficient?
Well, there is good news. Spirent recognises the problems faced by test programmes in reducing cost and time. Indeed our engineers have just the same problems as you do. So, we will soon be introducing a new way of automating the fundamental GNSS tests required for characterisation of GNSS devices.
TestDrive-GNSS is that new tool. It is a piece of software which controls your Spirent simulator and GNSS device under test. It provides a suite of test cases that enables fundamental characterization tests to be performed in an automated and controlled way. Examples of fundamental characterization tests include time-to-first-fix (TTFF), acquisition sensitivity, tracking sensitivity, re-acquisition time, and static and dynamic navigation accuracy. The tool also provides a formal test report at the end of the process.