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Software-Based GPS Solution for Mobile Devices

Feb 12, 2006 gps navigation, misc news, software

RFMD, a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, today announced that the RFMD GPS RF8110 – the Company’s new software-based GPS solution – is sampling to initial customers. The RFMD GPS RF8110 is a breakthrough end-to-end solution that enables the integration of high-performance GPS applications in smartphones, wireless PDAs, digital cameras, gaming devices and other cost-sensitive, battery-operated mobile devices.

Until now, mass deployment of GPS in mobile devices has been hindered by the high cost and size of conventional hardware-based GPS implementations. The RFMD GPS RF8110 redefines the boundaries of cost, power and size – enabling accelerated, widespread adoption of GPS in cost-sensitive mobile devices.

The RFMD GPS RF8110 is a highly scalable and flexible solution, allowing it to be optimized for a wide variety of product platforms. The solution eliminates the need for a dedicated baseband ASIC by leveraging the available host processing power and memory resources in feature-rich smartphones, wireless PDAs and other consumer devices. The RFMD GPS RF8110 is based on a mixed-signal CMOS RFIC bundled with RFMD’s proprietary core GPS software… read