Swiss GPS chip maker u-blox recently announced two new GPS modules. Called LEA-5, the new series is based on u-blox’ fifth generation positioning engine, u-blox 5, which boasts an acquisition performance of less than one second.

u-blox 5 offers an ultra-fast acquisition date thanks to its 50-channel GPS architecture with by 1 million

correlators and separate acquisition and tracking engines, capable of massively parallel searches. Combined with u-blox’ AssistNow A-GPS service, the u-blox 5 chip and module generation acquires satellites in less than one second.

LEA-5 modules are plus ultra fast and has -160 dBm acquisition and tracking sensitivity.

Original post by Tim Robbins