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Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Atmel Corporation | Subject: ATR0625
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 May 2006

GPS baseband compensates for weak
signals

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The ATR0625 baseband IC features SuperSense GPS weak-signal tracking software included in its ROM.

Atmel and u-blox have announced the availability of the ATR0625, a baseband IC with SuperSense GPS weak-signal tracking software included in its ROM The ATR0625 is based on the Antaris 4 platform which is a low-power, 16-channel GPS technology developed for automotive, handheld and mobile applications such as OEM car navigation, mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones, personal navigation devices and recreational consumer products

Thanks to the integration of the well-proven SuperSense software on masked ROM, an external Flash memory becomes unnecessary.

This significantly increases the benefits of the Antaris 4 technology - low power consumption and small size.

SuperSense, awarded with Frost and Sullivan's Award for Technology Innovation in 2005, uses a combination of coherent and