XF55-AVL concept released 02.06.04 10:28

FALCOM announces the release of the new XF55-AVL concept. This is a unique combination between state-of-the-art Tri-Band GSM/GPRS class 10 technology and highly integrated, highly sensitive, low power 12 parallel channel GPS core. Tri-Band GPRS class 10 core together with SiRFstarII low power GPS core are integrated on a single board in compact size of 35 x 53 x 5.1 mm. The full type approved concept allows easy integration into a variety of embedded OEM designs. In addition to the RF cores the XF55 offers an embedded ARM7 TDMI, CPU with fully featured RTOS on board (eCos version 2.0), 2 MB flash memory, 512 KB SRAM, 8 programmable GPI's as well as 8 programmable GPO's build the hardware backbone for embedding complex tracking, alarm and security packages into the device. The high level of integration of all critical RF components relieves the end user of the intricate RF design, facilitates design and redesign of embedded applications, reduces design-in time and design-in risk and increases design flexibility. Only very few components are needed for a minimal GPS/GPRS enabled application. The RTOS offers a complete set of software libraries, device drivers, and application examples as open source. In this way embedded software designs can reach high degree of portability of applications (hardware and/or operating system related). The device XF55-AVL offers excellent price/performance ratio and is the perfect platform for high volume cost and size sensitive GSM/GPRS/GPS OEM applications. The XF55-AVL evaluation kit (please see the attached picture) provides own complete hardware and software reference design. The evaluation kit and engineering samples are available at the end of June/beginning of July 2004.