These days almost every vehicle comes with a satellite navigator and people are becoming more addicted to navigational units. Last year SiRF announced its multifunctional chip-set and named it SiRFprima. This multifunctional platform was introduced to enhance the customer experience in the navigational sector. With the GPS systems likely to fail by 2010, it is mandate that the navigational chip-set must be compatible with the other navigational satellite systems such as Galileo. This factor was taken into consideration while designing SiRFprima, thus this new chip-set has been configured to be compatible with both American GPS and European Galileo systems.
The SiRFprima platform is made up of a powerful application processor and good multimedia features that include not just audio and video recording but also playback abilities. Furthermore, it is also believed to be capable of handling high resolution 3D graphics. All these applications have been programmed to run concurrently. It supports both Win CE and Linux operating systems. This makes SiRFprima a highly flexible and cost-effective navigational platform that has been designed to meet the customer experiences when it comes to performance and accuracy.
The SiRFprima platform is equipped with a very-high speed multifunction processor that includes the advanced ARM11 core and a good performance engine compatible with Galileo and GPS satellite systems along with an on-chip digital signal processor (DSP) and a satellite tracking circuit. For providing multimedia functionalities, multimedia encoding and decoding engines have been incorporated along with a hardware accelerated 3D graphics system. Its hardware scalable engine consists of more than 1,000,000 correlators. Besides it is one of the first applications that is capable of simultaneously working with GPS and Galileo signals. It has been specifically designed to support SiRF’s patented GPS technology, hence it includes a dedicated accelerator for the SiRFInstantFixII technology.
As this SiRFprima platform is integrated with lot many applications, it has eliminated the need of many additional coprocessors, thereby reducing the bill-of-material (BOM) cost for all of its customers. Along with cost reduction, the integration of various applications into one single chip-set has reduced the complexity of the board design. SiRFprima is believed to be capable of delivering all the necessary technologies with increased amount of user flexibility.
Owing to all these qualities it has currently become one of the most sought after navigational platforms.
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Hello,
Can you tell me of any vehicle satellite navigation that comes equiped with the SiRF prima chip?.
Would welcome a reply
Joseph