GPS
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a worldwide satellite navigation system controlled by the U.S DoD. It is the only Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in operation today. Other GNSS, most notably the EU-backed Galileo system and Russia's Glonass system, will be actively deployed in the near future, adding additional capabilities and options for navigation.
Automotive (personal navigation devices) and mobile (phones and PDAs) are the main applications for GPS products. Increasingly, GPS functionality is being integrated into mainstream consumer electronics devices such as digital cameras.
MIPS® Solutions
MIPS Technologies enables the GPS market with market-leading processor IP, with additional support from the MIPS ecosystem.MIPS32® M4K® and MIPS32® 4KE® processor cores offer the performance required to accelerate the baseband correlator function and protocol stack execution as a purely software or combined software/hardware assist solution, while optimizing cost and power. MIPS processor cores are optimized, and are available in Board Support Packages for Linux and WinCe that are most commonly used in GPS devices.
