GPSORION

GPS Orion 12 Channel GPS Receiver Design Product Brief DS4808 - 1.3 August 1997 The GPS Orion is an evaluation kit to demonstrate the capability of the Mitel Semiconductor GP2000 Global Positioning chip set. It is a fully functional GPS receiver design which provides full 12 channel parallel tracking hardware and software for GPS system integrators and designers of GPS receiver subsystems. This new approach offers a complete GPS receiver ‘engine’ design with the design information being freely available, providing the ability to integrate GPS with dedicated IC components. This allows wider design flexibility and lower cost solutions than using third-party modulebased receivers. It enables the GP2000 chipset to be evaluated in real applications. FEATURES I Small board size - 95 mm x 50 mm I 12 channel GPS Receiver architecture I Highly integrated miniature silicon Front-end IC I Low cost 12 Channel Correlator IC I 32 bit RISC processor with spare processing I Easy to embed into host systems I Non-volatile data retention I Supported by Development System (GPS Architect) with access to GPS software source code at minimal cost The GPS Orion comprises two boards : a GPS Receiver board, and an Interface board. The Receiver board is based on the GP2000 chip set plus complementary components which make a complete GPS Receiver. The Interface board provides power and data conditioning interfaces to peripheral equipment, and long term memory backup. GPS Receiver Board The GPS Orion re...