Richard, do you want pre-packaged working units?

Or are you willing to adapt a GPS chip set
to your project and interface it to your own
host CPU?

At one time these guys www.snaptrack.com were able to provide
the ship sets and required code that needed to run on a host
CPU:

SnapCoreTM:
The SnapCoreTM Multi-mode GPS (MMGPS)  solution is an easy to integrate,
high performance means of implementing SnapTrack's Wireless Assisted GPSTM
(WAG) wireless location system. SnapCore enables the tight integration of
WAG into any wireless communication device (phone, PDA, pager, modem, etc.)
by embedding logic gates into components that already exist in the device,
or by implementing the gates on a small IC placed along side existing
components. It also leverages the power of SnapTrack's proven algorithms for
multi-path mitigation and sensitivity enhancement. These leading edge
algorithms, combined with the high level of integration, provide unmatched
GPS acquisition speed and sensitivity, while minimizing cost, space and
power.


There is also: http://www.sirf.com/products.html

Sirf has respun its SirfStarIIe chip set in an 0.18-micron process to create
the SirfStar-IIe/LP. It is also offering a simplified version of the chip
set that off-loads navigation processing to a host CPU and another version
that makes its GPS signal-acquisition technology available as a block that
can be integrated with a host processor.

Article for that pull-quote:
http://www.sirf.com/News%20Pages/EETimes%20-%20cellular%20handsets.htm


RF Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Sloan" <rsloan@THEMINDFACTORY.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 9:18 AM
Subject: [EE]: GPS


Well so far my cost findings on the GPS modules is around $85 + $33 for
antenna if you want to have a steady supply of the sample product for the
next year, or $50-65 ($25 for antenna) surplus for unknown amounts. (This
pricing is for the OnCOre Mototola GPS module from
http://www.synergy-gps.com/Products_New.html

This still puts our current project at risk of never getting done as we need
a steady supply at $50 for the module and antenna!

So the search continues for a cheaper alternative......

Richard.

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