Japanese corporation NEC began OEM testing of GPS receiver based on Russian technology. The receiver is a PCMCIA card, with its hardware and software designed by Russian company SPIRIT in its research center in Moscow. The GPS receiver was developed by SPIRIT for highly dynamical applications, like automotive navigation.

According to SPIRIT officials, its proprietary technology allows to use as little as approximately one thousand switches per channel, while the conventional receivers need about 10,000 switches per channel. Thus, the SPIRIT design allows to built the receiver based on more cheap and power-saving chipset.

Source: InfoArt News Agency

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