|
|
Article: From cell phones to PDAs to cars: unleashing GPS for the masses.(personal digital assistant; Global Positioning System )
- Article from:
- EDN
- Article date:
- October 22, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
In a quest for ubiquitous GPS deployment, 1C vendors have a multipronged approach to proliferate the technology. Higher integration is lowering the cost of stand-alone receivers and making GPS a viable peripheral, even for PDAs, and a melding of technologies will ultimately yield GPS-enabled cell phones and other consumer devices.
At first glance, you might consider Global Positioning System (GPS)-IC technology to be relatively stagnant, but, truth be told, IC vendors are furiously pursuing long-term plans to horizontally integrate GPS and other functions. Just a few years ago, vendors sold almost all GPS ICs via turnkey modules. Today, even designers that lack RF ...