A-GPS solutions provider Nemerix has announced the release of its 4th generation A-GPS navigation platform—the Nemerix NX4.
The NX4 is said to be the industry's first scalable, hosted and standalone A-GPS platform. Like the three previous Nemerix GPS generations, the NX4 has been designed to deliver low power and high sensitivity, provide optimum performance (in tracking and TTFF, for example) and have the lowest BOM, the company said.
Commensurate with record investments in the GPS space, large mobile handset vendors and suppliers are demanding single-package, GPS-enabled multiwireless solutions by Q3 2008, followed by total wireless integration shortly thereafter.
The NX4 platform provides users with the ability to choose hosted or standalone A-GPS architectures within a single chip, as well as migration to 65nm RFCMOS and integrated baseband for multiwireless applications (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and FM, among others).
"GPS capability is turning out to be the 'keystone' of the mobile phone industry. Compared to the -75dBm sensitivity typical of other wireless devices, GPS's -162dBm sensitivity makes it the bottleneck to wireless integration," noted Eric Achtmann, vice chairman of Nemerix. "Coupled with the GSM baseband integration aspect of hosted-GPS architectures, this means that once the new multiwireless solutions are designed-in, starting at the end of 2008, they will be very hard to displace."
"The barriers to entry will be enormous," Acthmann added. "GPS is quietly but fundamentally changing the rules of the mobile handset game. Suppliers with GPS capabilities will find this a lucrative development. However, those without GPS may find themselves out of the mobile handset business before they know it."
Keywords:
A-GPS platform
multiwireless solutions
GPS
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