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
■ Small board size - 95 mm x 50 mm
■ 12 channel GPS Receiver architecture
■ Highly integrated miniature silicon Front-end IC
■ Low cost 12 Channel Correlator IC
■ 32 bit RISC processor with spare processing
■ Easy to embed into host systems
■ Non-volatile data retention
■ Supported by Development System (GPS Architect) with access to GPS software source code at minimal cost