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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Fastrax Announces New iTrax Multiplatform Family of OEM GPS Receivers
Helsinki, Finland - May 30, 2006 - Fastrax Ltd., a leading provider of open and portable OEM GPS Software Development environments and programmable OEM GPS receivers, today announced the new iTrax Multiplatform family of OEM GPS receivers. The iTrax Multiplatform approach is the first in the industry to provide a common form factor between multiple OEM GPS receiver models with different chipsets.
The iTrax Multiplatform family includes the iTrax300, iTrax130 and iTrax03-S receivers, powered by SiRFstar III, Sony CXD2985 and u-Nav uN2110 chipsets, respectively. The increased range of choices allows consumer electronics manufacturers and OEMs to select the optimum receiver for each application, product and market segment.
All iTrax Multiplatform receivers offer high sensitivity and superb navigation performance even in difficult urban canyon environments. User-configurable power management makes iTrax Multiplatform receivers ideally suited to battery-operated systems requiring low power and small sleep state current drain.
Optimum time to market is achieved by the use of a common form factor, development environment, testing tools and technical documentation. Additionally, a single hardware design reduces development, manufacturing and logistics costs.
"Lite-On provides a variety of GPS-enabled products to several global consumer brand names. They address different market segments and have different requirements. The iTrax Multiplatform product range enables us to choose the right OEM GPS receiver to match each customer requirement perfectly, while meeting challenging time-to-market goals and minimizing engineering, testing and manufacturing costs," said Charley Wang, Vice President, Lite-On Technology Corp., Mobile Media Solutions.
"The new iTrax Multiplatform concept is a unique offering in the OEM GPS industry, allowing customers to use the same hardware form factor and design tools in products tailored for widely differing market segments. The Multiplatform concept brings substantial time and cost savings for leading high-volume companies such as Lite-On Technology Corporation whose business depends on the fast time-to-market of cost-effective new products," said Matti Räty, President, Fastrax Ltd.
Key features of the iTrax Multiplatform product family:
Includes Fastrax iTrax300, iTrax130 and iTrax03-S receivers
Tiny form factor: 16.2 mm x 18.8 mm x 2.3 mm
High sensitivity down to -157 dBm
Low power consumption down to 34 mA
Common connectivity
NMEA and binary protocols
Two serial ports
1PPS output
GPIO available for custom purposes
Other peripherals include SPI bus, MMC bus, Capture Timer input, Pulse Measurement input, A/D converter depending on the module
For further application flexibility, the iTrax130 and iTrax03-S receivers support the Fastrax iSuite Software Development Kit. Fastrax iSuite technology may be used to rapidly modify receiver features and functionality and to add user application code to run onboard iTrax receivers. Adding support for wireless modems, Bluetooth devices, mass storage devices, LCD displays and keyboards is possible with minimum effort and without expensive extra components.
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