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Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: SiGe Semiconductor | Subject: SE4110S and SE4120S
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2007
GPS receivers cut power and cost
Compact Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver ICs suit mobile handsets, cellular telephones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
SiGe Semiconductor has announced two small Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, IC for mobile handsets, cellular telephones, personal navigation devices (PNDs) and personal digital assistants (PDAs) The new SE4110S Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and the SE4120S GPS/Galileo receiver are each based on SiGe's patent-pending software-based receiver architecture, proven to deliver high performance, enhance battery life, and maximise processor efficiency when adding navigation capability to consumer electronics devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both products are key to the integration of navigation with Bluetooth and WLAN capability to produce converged multifunction wireless platforms for mobile handsets.
"Integrating navigation capability into mobile handsets has never been easier", says John Brewer, Vice President of Marketing at SiGe Semiconductor.
"With the SE4110S and the SE4120S, our customers can easily meet shrinking form factor requirements of consumer electronics while packing in all of the performance, feature integration and battery efficiency desired by end users".
Chip-scale packaging technology reduces size, optimises performance Chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology allows the SE4110S and SE4120S to be mounted into application boards without wire-bonds or large mould enclosures.
As a result, the devices can be integrated into electronics where other GNSS receivers won't fit.
The CSP also delivers a significant RF performance advantage by using near ideal transmission-lines bringing the signal right up to the IC bond-pads.
The SE4120S is based on SiGe's SE4120L, a GNSS receiver with built-in support for software-defined satellite signal processing for both GPS and Galileo.
The SE4110S and SE4120S are sampling now, with volume production scheduled for Q3 2007.
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