Atheros' Single-chip GPS Receiver Features Advanced Navigation Functions for Mobile Devices

(Top News, 30 Apr 2008)

Atheros Communications Inc. has launched a new member of its Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm) family of GPS solutions—a hardware and software GPS combination targeted at mobile phones, personal navigation devices (PNDs) and personal media players (PMPs).

Atheros' new solution consists of its second-generation, single-chip GPS receiver, the AR1511, and companion ORION 3.0 software suite. This combination is ideally suited for integrating advanced navigation functions into mobile devices, with Assisted GPS (AGPS) technology, advanced parallel search, and tracking sensitivity of -160dBm, which together enable the most rapid and accurate location determination while conserving device battery power.

Atheros' latest ROCm GPS device provides developers with turnkey, high-performance options for both standalone and host-dependent designs. This platform flexibility enables customers to design a wide variety of location-aware devices and form factors.

The AR1511 and ORION 3.0 solution contains new patent-pending features specifically designed to address the most challenging navigation environments. These enhancements provide considerable performance advances with Time To First Fix (TTFF) reacquisition times reduced by nearly half, and positional accuracy increased by more than 50 percent.

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