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CSR launches gps module 21/01/2008
 
gps module, location services CSR says its collaboration with Samsung Electro Mechanics has halved the cost of embedded gps solutions. The products – featuring CSR’s gps software and Samsung’s module hardware – enable location based services in mobile phones, media players and personal navigation devices.
Measuring 9.8 x 9.8 x 2.15mm, the Samsung module is based on SiGe Semiconductor’s SE4120S GPS rf ic and includes voltage regulation, a real time clock and tcxo, saw filter and lna. When combined with a typical applications processor, says CSR, the system achieves tracking sensitivity of -159dBm and has a cold start acquisition time of less than 40s.
Dr Stuart Strickland, vice president of CSR’s Location Based Services Business Unit, commented: “By partnering with Samsung, we are now able to completely eliminate a complex, risk laden, and time consuming step in the product design and integration process, thus making this lower cost alternative available to a much broader range of customers.”
 
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Graham Pitcher
 
 
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