SiRF works with Philips on low-cost 3G handsets

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 13, 2007

SiRF Technology Holdings is to collaborate with NXP Semiconductors, newly independent from Philips, to speed the development of cost-effective, location-aware 3G wireless handsets.

SiRF Technology Holdings is to collaborate with NXP Semiconductors, newly independent from Philips to speed the development of cost-effective, location-aware 3G wireless handsets.

The collaboration will provide global handset manufacturers with leading Assisted-GPS-compliant, integrated reference designs based upon NXP's Nexperia cellular system solution for 3G with SiRFstarIII A-GPS and SiRFloc technologies.

Expected to be available in the second quarter of this year, the reference design will feature Nexperia cellular system solution 7210 with SiRF's single-chip SiRFstarIII GSC3LT A-GPS receiver.

The GSC3LT delivers flagship SiRFstarIII multimode A-GPS performance with sophisticated power management and control functions to help lower power consumption as well as reduce complexity and bill of material costs.

The reference design will also incorporate SiRF's patented SiRFloc software, thought to be the world's first multimode A-GPS product, which optimises mobile phones to support a wide range of location-based services based on both control plane and user plane architectures.

The standards-based SiRFloc client software is fully supported by the SiRFloc Server, a carrier-class, standards-compliant, multimode Aided-GPS location server that enables wireless carriers to support a wide range of location-based services with greater efficiency and better-controlled network loading.

"Combining the NXP Nexperia cellular system solution 7210 with SiRFstarIII architecture technology provides a leading A-GPS reference design that will help drive down the cost and speed the development of next-generation, location-aware wireless handsets", says Kanwar Chadha, founder and Vice President of Marketing for SiRF.

"Our collaboration with NXP is yet another example of Sirf's commitment to providing industry leading, fully integrated A-GPS solutions tailored to meet the growing need for location in the wireless marketplace".