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News Release from: SiGe Semiconductor
Subject: SE4100L
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 May 2006

GPS radio chip slips into handheld receiver

SiGe Semiconductor today announced that the SE4100L GPS radio has been integrated into DeLorme's Earthmate navigation products.

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SiGe Semiconductor today announced that the SE4100L GPS radio has been integrated into DeLorme's Earthmate navigation products. The Earthmate family of products includes PC-based and handheld GPS devices that support high performance consumer and professional location services. The latest DeLorme device to benefit from SiGe's SE4100L GPS receiver is the Earthmate GPS PN-20 handheld receiver.

Scheduled to hit the market in late 2006, the Earthmate GPS PN-20 will provide consumers with a completely self-contained, portable device capable of displaying high-quality colour images of accurate location maps and real-time routing applications.

'The SE4100L was an easy choice for the Earthmate PN-20'.

'We first used the device with our LT-20 GPS system for laptops and achieved industry leading performance, integration and power efficiency', said Caleb Mason, Director of Marketing for DeLorme.

'These benefits ported well to our new design'.

The Earthmate GPS PN-20 is a complete, portable GPS unit with a full-colour screen that displays detailed maps, aerial photos and satellite images.

The device is WAAS-enabled for accuracy to within three meters, and features 10,000 data point capacity.

A key design challenge faced by DeLorme was to incorporate all these capabilities without impacting battery life or adding size.

The SE4100L overcomes this challenge by providing complete GPS radio front end capability, including the IF filter, VCO with its tank circuitry, and a high performance LNA, in a miniature 4 x 4mm package.

The high integration eliminates external components for low overall system cost, minimised board area, and reduced power consumption.

Also included on chip are power control features that support longer battery life.

The PN-20 runs on a long-life, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, or standard AA batteries.

'We are pleased to be working with an industry leader like DeLorme, and look forward to continued collaboration to meet the need of the market', said Stuart Strickland, Product Line Director, SiGe Semiconductor.

'SiGe shares DeLorme's strategy to make GPS accessible to a wider market by reducing the cost and complexity of adoption, and making positioning technology a part of everyday life'.

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