The Avago Technologies device targets designers of low-power handset and PND applications.
Data from ABI Research says GPS IC shipments are expected to reach 450 million in 2010.
Shipments of dedicated sport and fitness hardware such as Suunto GPS watches, Garmin cycling computers and GPS golf rangefinders are suffering from the recession, says analyst ABI Research.
Worldwide GPS smart phone shipments will grow 34 percent from 57 million units in 2008 to 77 million units in 2009, says analyst Strategy Analytics.
Rojone has announced a distribution agreement for a line of products from AB Connectors in the UK.
National Instruments has announced the NI GPS Simulation Toolkit 1.5 for LabVIEW.
Although cellular handsets will continue to dominate shipments of devices with integrated GPS, the next growth spurt for the technology will come from mobile consumer electronics (CE) and mobile computing applications, reports analyst In-Stat.
The global recession may have slowed many forms of economic activity, but not the efforts of mobile device manufacturers to drive growth by design innovation.
Shipments of GPS semiconductors will increase 15 percent on a unit basis in 2009 compared to the previous year, according to a new analysis by ABI Research.
An increasingly common approach to RF receiver validation is to test receivers with recorded GPS waveforms. David A. Hall explains