Wireless
TI’s SimpleLink GPS CC4000 brings GPS capabilities to microcontroller-based applications
Adding to the family of easy-to-use SimpleLink connectivity solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced the SimpleLink GPS CC4000 solution—the company’s first broadly available GPS solution. The self-contained module minimizes complexity synonymous with adding GPS functionality to products.
For “TI’s GPS technology has shipped in hundreds of millions of smartphones and portable navigation devices over the past 10 years,” said Eran Sandhaus, general manager, embedded connectivity solutions, TI. “As part of our SimpleLink family strategy, we are excited to offer the SimpleLink GPS CC4000 solution for embedded microcontroller applications, an easy to attach, self-contained GPS solution that is cost- and size-effective and requires little to no RF expertise.”
The SimpleLink GPS CC4000 delivers better than 2.5 meter accuracy and pulse-per-second output functions to provide precise location and timing data. Its “watchful-eye” feature optimally uses the solution memory for automatic reuse of previously decoded satellite information to deliver ultra-fast time to first fix (TTFF) and optimization of the overall system power consumption. These features and more support the movement of navigation and location based services into non-traditional GPS-enabled devices that can make use of location, time and velocity data. Additionally, the SimpleLink GPS CC4000 expands into many popular applications such as asset tracking, material exploration and sports and fitness stat monitoring and new markets driven by GPS-enabled precise timing data.
The hyper-precise timing capabilities driven by the SimpleLink GPS CC4000 solution also open up a wealth of power-efficient MCU-based use case possibilities, creating compelling end experiences. For example, highly-accurate scheduling can kick-off a marketing campaign by displaying event messages on multiple electronic signs at one specified time. For applications requiring time-stamped records such as banking systems or the recording industrial system failures, the exact time can be recorded down to a fraction of a micro-second. The possibilities are endless.
Availability
• The SimpleLink GPS CC4000 is in production.