Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Atheros Communications | Subject: AR1511
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 April 2008
Second-generation receiver IC upgrades
GPS
GPS solutions provide enhanced design flexibility with multiple options for either stand-alone or host-dependent applications.
Atheros Communications has added a new member to its Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm) family of GPS devices for mobile phones, personal navigation devices and personal media players The AR1511 is a second-generation single-chip GPS receiver that is complemented by the Orion 3.0 software suite
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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