SiRFstarIIA The SiRFstarIIA is designed for applications that will benefit from the high performance of SiRF GPS incorporated into a System On Chip that provides system processing and peripheral control and interfaces. The GSP2A provides over 65 MIPS of throughput and is capable of providing all the central processing for many applications. Interfaces include UARTS, vehicle CAN buses, USB, SPI and ATAPI/EIDE. It can also interface to control panels and display units and support audio interfaces for entertainment or voice prompts.
This power and flexibility makes the SiRFstarIIA an ideal central component for automotive telematics products, including emergency and concierge services, road-tolling, security, and low cost navigation and infotainment systems.
The optional SiRFDRive closely coupled dead reckoning system uses in-expensive heading and speed sensors to provide reliable positions in challenging signal environments including urban canyons, tunnels and under foliage. The GPS and dead reckoning measurements are used in the navigation filter to validate and calibrate each other ensuring accurate and continuous navigation in all conditions.”
SiRFstarIIt SiRFstarIIt makes it easy and economical to add high-performance SiRFstarII technology to systems that are based on many popular processors and operating systems. The SiRFstarIIt solution allows GPS function to be added at minimal cost in components and circuit board area, by sharing the host system's processor and memory resources. The chip set acquires and tracks satellites, then sends raw measurements to the host processor running the SiRFNav software in parallel with the host applications. The SiRFNav software module computes position time and velocity. For enhanced accuracy and navigation reliability, WAAS corrections can be applied to GPS measurements or GPS can be combined with dead reckoning data and processed by SiRFDRive software.
The chip set consists of the GSP2t highly integrated digital chip, GRF2i integrated RF receiver and the SiRFNav software. The two chips are packaged as 9mm 48-pin LQFP packages and require minimal external components thanks to their high level of integration. SiRFNav software is designed for easy porting to host systems.
SiRFstarIIe/LP If you’re manufacturing or designing a device using GPS with battery power, the SiRFstarIIe/LP provides an innovative way to add location awareness to your product. Drawing only 60mA in full power and 20mA in TricklePower, the SiRFstarIIe/LP is one of the lowest power full-feature GPS chipsets on the market. The chipset also has an ARM CPU with 40 MIPS of total processing power. This can be used as the engine to drive your product reducing component cost by removing the extra CPU. The SiRFstarIIe/LP family is comprised of the GRF2i/LP low-power front end, the GSP2e/LP highly integrated digital section, and the GSW2 software, which provides a path for new features and continuous GPS improvement.
SiRFstarIII With its rapid time-to-first-fix and high sensitivity, the SiRFstarIII architecture is designed to meet the rigorous demands of wireless and handheld LBS applications, and provides superior location performance, both indoors and out, for 2G, 2.5G, 3G asynchronous networks. The SiRFstarIII architecture packs a performance punch, achieving time-to-first-fix of one second for aided starts in outdoor GSM environments and acquiring signals down to -159 dBm. This makes real-time navigation practical, including in many indoor environments, through urban canyons, and under dense foliage. Unlike the lengthy sequential search process of traditional GPS architectures, the SiRFstarIII architecture, with the equivalent of more than 200,000 correlators, enables fast and deep GPS signal search capabilities, resulting in significant improvement over today’s architectures that contain a few hundred to a few thousand correlators.
The SiRFstarIII family is comprised of the GRF3w RF IC, the GSP3f digital section, and the GSW3 software that is API compatible with GSW2 and SiRFLoc.
Sirf I ---- 很久以前的東西,市面上也找不到了,收訊不佳,又貴,所以還沒普及 Sirf II ---- 這是GPS開始普及化的開始,也是GPS大量應用的開始,定位準,但在市區或高樓林立處,比較容易無法定位 Sirf II Xtrac ---- Sirf II 的加強版,只是更新韌體而已,雖然比Sirf II容易定位,但卻容易飄移,也就是看起來不太準 Sirf II Xtrac2 ---- Sirf II最後的韌體版本,解決Sirf Xtrac飄移的問題,不但收訊佳,也不易飄移,已經算是相當成熟的GPS Sirf III ---- 現在最新的版本,不但感度增強,準度也有相當提升,可以針對微小訊號做處裡,在訊號微弱的地方,也能有很良好的表現