Description
The Falcom FSA03 is a phenomenal and inexpensive little GPS. It's easy to work with, especially when combined with an ESawdust FSA03 bare breakout board, and has the omni-directional Sarantel helical antenna so you can orient this guy to the sky pretty much any way you'd like.
Features
- u-blox - UBX-G5010 single chip
- 50 channel u-blox 5 engine
- High sensitivity for indoor fixes
- Extremely fast TTFF at low signal levels
- Galileo capable
- Max update rate is 4Hz
- Online / Offline A-GPS support
- Integrated TCXO
- On chip 384 KB ROM
- ARM7 baseband CPU
- Battery backup
- Temperature range: -40 to +85 °C
- Sarantel quadrifilar helix antenna
- Warm and cold start: ~29 sec
- Hot start: < 1 sec
- Protocol support: NMEA, UBX binary
Eagle CAD Part for FSA03
ESawdust has developed an Eagle CAD footprint for the FSA03 module; available upon request. Please contact us for the Eagle FSA03 footprint or you can use the Question form below as well to request the FSA03 Eagle footprint.
Documents
Falcom FSA03 spec sheet (PDF)
Falcom FSA03 application notes (PDF)
50 channel u-blox 5 engine
