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CSR Partners with Samsung to Lower Costs of Embedded GPS Solutions for Mobile Devices

(Top News, 28 Jan 2008)


CSR has collaborated with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. to slash down costs of embedded GPS solutions. Based on CSR's GPS software and Samsung's module hardware, the products enable location-based services to mobile phones, media players and personal navigation devices, while taking the guesswork out of GPS RF design and allowing OEMs an exceptionally short route to market.

According to ABI Research, the market for GPS enabled handsets alone is set to generate $50 billion in revenues in 2008, with that figure set to rise to $100 billion by 2012. CSR's software approach eliminates the need for a dedicated GPS baseband—reducing the cost of the module to less than half of what competitors are able to offer, and offering manufacturers a low cost route to take advantage of this high growth market.

The 9.8x9.8x2.15mm Samsung module is based on the SiGe Semiconductor SE4120S GPS RF IC and is a complete GPS RF subsystem, including voltage regulation, RTC and TCXO, SAW filter and LNA. When combined with CSR's GPS software running on a typical applications processor, the system achieves tracking sensitivity of -159dBm and has a cold start acquisition time of under 40s.

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