TI announces the first single chip GPS
Nov 22, 2005 gps navigation, misc news
Ever wondered why nobody ever came up with a cell phone with an integrated GPS device? Most probably it was too costly, to big and consumed too much power. TI may have a solution for that. A whole GPS device on a single chip so it can fit in your cell phone. The chip, GPS5300, is expected to be in production by second quarter of 2006.
Texas Instruments today introduced the industry’s first single-chip assisted global positioning system (A-GPS) solution in 90 nanometer (nm) process technology for mobile phones. A-GPS enables consumers to connect to a satellite from their mobile phone to get directions and maps to the nearest ATM or store, find friends who may be nearby and location information in emergency situations. Through TI’s innovative DRPTM technology, the GPS5300 NaviLinkTM 4.0 single chip offers the smallest system area for a discrete GPS solution, lowest total system cost, low power consumption and high performance A-GPS functionality.
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January 26th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
[...] Now we are totally over the single chip GPS receiver era. We have the technology to fit a fully functional GPS receiver and bluetooth connectivity into a single unit. According to SiRF this will reduce cost, space, and power requirements even further. [...]