u-blox unveils two new GPS units

u-blox from Switzerland has announced two new GPS modules – where the LEA-5 series is based on u-blox’ 5th generation positioning engine that is touts an acquisition performance of under a second. Now that’s pretty fast by any standards, with its 50-channel GPS architecture and over 1 million correlators and separate acquisition and tracking engines to thank for being able to perform massively parallel searches. When used in conjunction with u-blox’ AssistNow A-GPS service, the u-blox 5 chip and module generation is capable the acquisition performance as mentioned earlier.