<p>Note the 731-r is venus 5, the ones I've used are venus 6, but skytraq seems consistent.</p>
<p>Would you happen to know if the unitraq is 20hz (venus 638) or 10hz (634)?</p>
<p>Note they could have a populateable 0 ohm jumper if they wanted it optional, but dcd or ri shouldn't interfere with generic gps software.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 17, 2012 10:19 AM, "Eric S. Raymond" <<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">esr@thyrsus.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Of the 5 companies I contacted, two - NaviSys and UniTraq - have<br>
gotten back to me, confirmed that their USB GPS dongles do not ship 1PPS,<br>
and expressed interest in the possibility of customizing a product for<br>
us. A third, Xucai Technologies, responded without bringing up the<br>
possibility of an OEM/ODM product. This is as good a response rate<br>
as I was expecting.<br>
<br>
Three devices are under discussion.<br>
<br>
One NaviSys device is the GR-300, bsed on uBlox 6 with integral USB<br>
interface. I think this one is actually a non-starter as it would<br>
require fiddling with the uBlox firmware to get the chip to ship<br>
1PPS notifications.<br>
<br>
The other NaviSys device is the GR-300: SiRFIII + PL2303. The UniTraq<br>
device is the UD-731R: SkyTraq + CP-2102. Both adapters have full<br>
Linux support and have DCD pins. Both chipsets emit 1PPS. Neither<br>
device connects the 1PPS pin to the adapter DCD.<br>
<br>
I am pitching both companies the idea that with one added PCB trace<br>
they could sell to a sizeable untapped market of people with<br>
applications like network tomography and Stratum 1 NTP servers.<br>
I've told them we're willing to help them test and qualify the<br>
product if they'll sell the results back to us at a price<br>
that is reasonable for a hundred-unit deployment.<br>
<br>
It's early in the negotiations yet, but things look promising. These<br>
outfits are clearly used to doing ODM/OEM business - the only real<br>
difficulty I'm having is explaining why I think this mod will work,<br>
because these people don't know the odd corners of the USB spec<br>
involved.<br>
<br>
In the process of writing my explanations I've done more research<br>
(including reading the Linux PL2303 driver source code and grokking<br>
how USB handshake control messages are handled there) and my<br>
confidence that the mod actually will work has increased.<br>
<br>
I think I have at least one more plausible company - GlobalSat - to<br>
poke about this if neither NaviSys or UniTraq follows through. More<br>
might be findable through <a href="http://alibaba.com" target="_blank">alibaba.com</a><br>
--<br>
>>esr>><br>
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