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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2006
Applicants:
David E. Penna, Redhill, GB;
Stephen A. Tickell, Redhill, GB;
Inventors:
David E. Penna, Redhill, GB;
Stephen A. Tickell, Redhill, GB;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A software GPS processing arrangement comprising a FIFO buffer for receiving a stream of the GPS signal samples, a memory, a DMA controller for transferring the GPS signal samples from the FIFO buffer to the memory, a CPU running GPS signal processing software configured to retrieve the GPS signal samples from the memory and process them to obtain a position fix, and a counter operating independently of the DMA controller and the CPU for keeping count of the number of streamed GPS signal samples.