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Testingtheinterfaceswithperipheraldevices

Topics

Verifyingthecommunicationwithanavigationsystem(GPS),page365

Verifyingthecommunicationwithspeedlog,page367

Verifyingthecommunicationwiththecoursegyro,page369

Verifyingthecommunicationwiththemotionreferenceunit(MRU),page371

Verifyingthecommunicationwithanavigationsystem(GPS)

FortheST90touseandoffercorrectnavigationalinformation,oneormoreexternal

sensorsmustbeconnected.Thecommunicationwiththesensoristested.

Prerequisites

Thisprocedureassumesthat:

•ThesensorisconnectedtotheST90.Itisswitchedonandinnormaloperation.

•Theinterfaceportissetupwiththecorrectcommunicationparameters.

•YouarefamiliarwithNMEAandotherrelevantdatagramformats.

•Youknowhowtosetuptheparametersforserialandlocalareanetwork(LAN)

communication.

•Thevesselisberthedoratsea.

•Allrelevantvesseldrawings,installationreportsand/ormeasurementresultsare

available.

•TheST90isturnedon,anditisworkingnormally.

Neithertoolsnorinstrumentsarerequired.

Context

ThepropertiesofeachoftheavailablecommunicationportsaredenedontheI/OSetup

page.TheSensorInstallationpageallowsyourST90tocommunicatewithexternal

sensorsandsystems.Tomakesurethattheinformationfromthe"mostreliable"sensors

areusedbytheST90,usetheSensorCongurationpagetodeneadatagrampriorities.

ThecommunicationparametersdenedforNMEA0183are:

•BaudRate:4800b/s

•DataBits:8

•Parity:None

•StopBits:1

Settingtowork

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