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Project Objectives
Over the last few years, GNSS has gradually edged into the daily life of many EU citizens, in most
cases through applications such as route guidance, tracking services, leisure, fleet management,
emergency calls, and theft protection for vehicles, etc. This trend will continue in the future and
many more people will become direct or indirect users of GNSS signals, services and
applications.
Common features of mass market receivers are large scale production, low unit costs, small size,
low power demand and potentially also the hybridisation capability with other sensors and
platforms. The level of integration into existing platforms and systems is essential for the
development of new applications in the future.
The objective of the project was to develop a new 3-frequency receiver concept for automotive
applications and on pushing the state-of-the-art of GNSS receivers by elaboration of relevant
core technologies, which has been implemented and verified in a prototype receiver. Within the
design of the receiver components innovative concepts have been considered to make use of the
specific benefits (bandwidth, modulation scheme, pilot tones etc.) of each new type of GALILEO
and GPS signals. In particular all receiver components have been designed for low implementation
losses supported by a careful choice of semiconductor technology for the RF frontends and the
selection of active components of the antenna.
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