Quick Start Guide

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The SatGen software helps you to create GNSS test scenarios that mimic the signals transmitted by real GNSS satellites. These scenarios can be replayed with any LabSat, allowing you to evaluate the performance and reliability of GNSS receivers and applications in a wide range of settings and conditions. In a few steps, you can create, define and generate a GNSS simulation that you can replay again and again.

Download the software

Download SatGen 4 from the Labsat Website.
Connect the dongle

Connect the security dongle to the USB port on your PC.
Run the SatGen 4 software

Import/Create Route

Import

If you have an NMEA, KML or VBO file of your route, you can import this directly into the software.

Map Mode

You can define a relatively complicated route in just a few clicks using the built-in mapping tool. Scenarios can include static testing or complex routes with multiple waypoints.

Script Mode

You can create a simulation from scratch, adding your own user-defined commands. A library of pre-defined editable scripting examples is provided.

Define Conditions

Specify route dynamics, including acceleration levels, jerk rates, speed, or altitude.
Choose between a fixed elevation mask and the true horizon.
Edit custom leap seconds and ionospheric delay parameters.
Apply a geoid or an ellipsoid to your simulation.
Select specific satellites to simulate.
Fine-tune your settings by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio through the addition of artificial noise.

Generate Scenario

The software can use the provided route and configuration to generate a fully realistic scenario.

The new SatGen 4 dynamics engine greatly improves the quality and precision of GNSS/GPS simulations created using the map, with the ability to use road or railway routing in car, train and pedestrian modes.

Run Simulation

Connect to any Labsat unit to replay a scenario into your Device under Test (DUT).

You can either run the simulation as is, with the time set during the scenario generation, or if you are using SatGen & a LabSat Real-Time together, you can run the scenario with the current time, giving you real-time GNSS signals.

LabSat Real-Time+ will produce a live, low-latency GNSS RF signal that corresponds to the positional data supplied by a third-party application, such as HIL simulator.