Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: SiRF Technology | Subject: SiRFstarIIA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 May 2005
SoC hosts automotive navigation and
telematics
The SiRFstarIIA GPS system on chip is billed as a highly integrated and cost-effective solution for creating affordable automotive navigation and telematics systems.
Building on its momentum in the position-enabled silicon business, SiRF Technology Holdings has released the SiRFstarIIA GPS system on chip, a highly integrated and cost-effective solution for creating affordable automotive navigation and telematics systems The groundbreaking SiRFstarIIA combines the industry-leading SiRFstarII GPS engine, a powerful, 32bit ARM CPU and virtually all the peripheral interface circuitry required by in-vehicle navigation and telematics systems, and is supported by a robust array of SiRF and partner-provided development tools and applications to help customers reduce product development effort and cost, minimise recurring costs and accelerate time to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Software maximises GPS positional accuracy
New GPS/dead reckoning software offers a novel approach to maximising position availability and accuracy for automotive navigation and telematics applications at a significantly lower cost.
IP blocks put GPS baseband on Renesas SoC
GPS baseband IP blocks location-enable the new Renesas SuperH Family SH7775 SoC for high-performance car informatics.
The SiRFstarIIA takes the industry's leading GPS engine and incorporates it into a multifunction system-on-chip (SoC).
It starts with SiRF's pioneering SiRFstarIIe architecture, embeds a 32bit ARM720T CPU into the GPS baseband platform for running a