#Planeplotter .sqb how to
#Planeplotter .sqb update
#Planeplotter .sqb upgrade

#Planeplotter .sqb update

They are completly equal with regard to Mode-S, the only difference is that HW V1.1 is prepared to update the firmware via USB.

I noticed that there are two versions of the Hardware (V1.0 and V1.1)?.

On the air, and especially as a passive receiver, there is absolutely no indication if it is a Mode-A (squawk) or a Mode-C (altitude) frame. Just the reqeuesting radar station knows that.

Is there any distinction between Mode-A and Mode-C frames?.

Simply said: Be carful! If you don't dare doing this, ask around, someone from your friends surely has the right equipment. Take care on discharge, avoid areas (for example carpets) which you know that you sometimes get a small electric shock. Never use one that directly is connected to the 110V/220V mains. You need some moderate soldering skills and a soldering iron for electronic circuits.

Do I need to take care on the sensitivity of the components, in other words: May I destroy components while completing the kit?.

Yes, this is possible, as long as the signal is equal to the signal of the miniADSB, best resulting from a AD8313 log detector.

Can I also connect other receivers than the miniADSB to the external ports?.

Will you sell ready made units? Rarely there are used test samples availble, but regularily I do not sell ready units.

Will you supply VHDL source code for your project?.

#Planeplotter .sqb upgrade

Even then the upgrade procedure is not as easy as you might be used with ОјCs.Дeveloping any properitary protocol and tooling is totally out of scope due to the necessary effort.ДЄn idea of using the 4 parallel IO lines of the FT232R was no longer tracked because that needs to reprogram the FT232R, which is pretty dangerous, even I once accidentally have overwritten an USB blaster because this has the same device. Why isn't there any integrated FW upgrade?Д«ecause the FPGA is not a microcontroller, any update would have required extra space in it.Will you supply the FPGA programming information?ДЇor those who decided to buy an Altera USB blaster or compatible, I will provide the firmware file on request.Yes, as far as it is needed to understand the design architecture. Will you supply schematics and documentations about this development?.Finally I saw problems on the USB interface together with my slow Mode-S laptop (600MHz Pentium) and so even had to contact FTDI support how the FT232R is best able to handle that.ДЄll together, this piece is a little beast and bothers all components involved.Д«ut be sure, all the issues are solved and the Mode-S Beast will safely work for you.

#Planeplotter .sqb how to

Also, we had several problems how to handle the message load (I've seen a maximum of 1100 verfied messages per second) in Planeplotter.

While with the PIC the received frames just appeared like a drop-by-drop, with the Beast the screen just races. Well, my Mode-S experience started with PIC decoder, and then I proceeded step-by-step into the FPGA world, and also into the high performance decoding. Decompress the database and load it into Planeplotter with Options->Directories->SQB Database. The aircraft type is not part of the Mode-S transmissions, but Planeplotter is able to read the type from a database, which you can find here on the manTMA pages. Why do I not see the aircraft type in Planeplotter?.