Press and News - 12.09.2003

RCB-LJ - u-blox Introduces ANTARIS® GPS Receiver Board for easy Integration.

Thalwil, Switzerland, 12. September 2003 - u-blox, an innovator in GPS-based positioning technology, has introduced the ANTARIS® GPS Receiver Board. The RCB-LJ, having the same form factor as the Conexant Jupiter, allows fast and easy system integration.

The RCB-LJ is an industry standard GPS receiver board containing the u-blox TIM-LF macro component which provides the full ANTARIS® performance. It is backwards compatible with the u-blox predecessor, the TIM-CJ and the form factor based on the Conexant Jupiter. This allows easy plug-in integration into existing products. It supports a broad supply voltage range from 3.15 to 5.25 V and contains a full antenna supervision circuit to detect a shorted or disconnected antenna.

The RCB-LJ is powered by the 16-channel, low-power ANTARIS® chipset and has the same superior GPS performance: less than 160 mW power consumption, 3m CEP accuracy, 41 second cold start, 3.5 second hot start, high sensitivity, and a 4 Hz update rate. The RCB-LJ and all other ANTARIS® products provide a time pulse output with configurable frequency up to 1 KHz and 50 ns RMS accuracy, suitable for timing and synchronization applications. The innovative FixNOW™ low-power mode allows further power reduction and is ideally suited for power-critical applications such as untethered trailer tracking units. The TIM-LF inside contains a programmable CPU which allows integration of custom applications and add-on features, for example a direct link to a wireless modem. For straightforward code development, u-blox offers the Software Customization Kit (SCKit).

"With the RCB-LJ introduced, we provide a wide spectrum of GPS products optimally suited for different customer needs and levels of system integration: chipsets, highly compact and surface mount macro components, GPS receiver boards and smart antennas. All products are also available as sensor-based GPS receivers with complete dead reckoning functionality", says Thomas Seiler, CEO of u-blox AG.

u-blox is a company operating internationally with headquarters in Switzerland with subsidiaries in Germany, UK, USA and Hong Kong. Since its foundation in 1997, u-blox develops and markets leading Global Positioning System (GPS) chipsets and GPS receiver products. For further information and contacts, please refer to our homepage www.u-blox.com.

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Georg Zur Bonsen , Product Management
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