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Texas Instruments has started mass production of what the company claims to be the world’s most advanced automotive-grade wireless connectivity devices, the WiLink 8Q family. The family integrates WiFi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and GPS/GNSS technologies into an AEC-Q100 qualified wireless connectivity chip for automotive infotainment systems.

Alpha Micro Components is preparing a wide range of products to show at Motiv8’s free RF & Wireless Design Forum (June 24). Included are the high performance, low power ISM RF SoCs from AXSEM, Cellular and GNSS positioning receiver modules from u-blox, very low power embedded WiFi solutions from GainSpan and ISM solutions from LPRS.

70% smaller than current solutions and delivering a 30% reduction in Time To First Fix (TTFF), CSR and OriginGPS announce a series of high-performance GNSS modules using CSR’s SiRFstarIV and SiRFstarV product lines. Integrating antennas, the modules are suited for health and fitness trackers, sports watches, medical devices, wearable action cameras and digital still cameras.

Lava International has selected Broadcom's quad-core HSPA+ turnkey platform for the recently released QPAD e704 tablet. Comprising a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, RF transceiver, power management IC, connectivity combo chip and multi-constellation GNSS location chip, the Broadcom platform enabled Lava to produce an affordable feature-rich tablet with the advanced connectivity and entertainment capabilities demanded by consumers.

Delivering low power, low cost and simplified automotive connectivity to emerging smartphone-controlled and wire-replacement applications, Texas Instruments introduce the SimpleLink Bluetooth low energy CC2541-Q1. The CC2541-Q1 leverages the success of TI’s broad-market Bluetooth Smart solution (SimpleLink CC2541) and automotive connectivity offerings for combo WiFi, Bluetooth and GNSS (WiLink 8Q) and dual-mode Bluetooth (BL6450Q).

Claimed to be the world’s smallest and most versatile personal tracking device, the Trax from WTS is based on u-blox's CAM-M8Q GNSS receiver module. Measuring just 9.6x14.0x1.95mm, theGNSS module includes an integrated chip antenna plus SAW filter, LNA, TCXO, RTC crystal and passives.

Designed specifically for automotive use, theUMSZ2 Series is a multi GNSS moduleproviding support for multiple satellite positioning systems with a single module. The series, from ALPS Electric,will be made available from April 2014.

Suitable for integration in multi-frequency handheld GNSS devices for high precision location applications up to 1cm, imec and Septentrio have collaborated on the design of a compact antenna-RF integrated element of a multi-frequency GNSS antenna for GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and GALILEO.

At Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, February 24-27, Broadcom will exhibit the BCM4771 GNSS SoC. The company has claimed that this is the industry's first Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) SoC designed for low-power, mass-market wearable devices such as fitness trackers and smart watches.

Supplied in a tiny 9.6x14.0x1.95mm package, a GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/QZSS antenna module has been introduced by u-blox. Thesurface-mount CAM-M8Q supports concurrent GNSS operation (GPS & GLONASS, GPS & BeiDou or GLONASS & BeiDou) to enable reliable and accurate satellite positioning anywhere in the world.