Protocol Converters

The USB version of Garmin GPS receivers (like Garmin 18) do not support NMEA, they only support Garmin's own protocol. Therefore very few GPS applications can use Garmin USB GPS receivers directly.

Franson GpsGate solves this problem.

You can connect GpsGate to a Garmin USB GPS and GpsGate will make the Garmin GPS sensor to appear as a normal NMEA GPS sensor connected to a some serial port (creates virtual ports).

An additional advantage is that you can connect any number of GPS applications to the same GPS unit at the same time (signal distribution).

This is handy if you need the same input for different applications at the same time and you want to be sure that the position signal is exactly the same for all applications.

Franson GpsGate can be used as a signal multiplexer for any nmea sensor or similar.