Telit partners with Parsec on miniaturization

Telit Wireless Solutions and Parsec Technologies have announced that a combination of the companies’ technologies results in low-profile companion solution for GPS receiver and antenna. For host devices able to accommodate higher volumetric symmetry, assembly of the components can be made to fit a 6x16x8mm volume. A flat component arrangement can yield an ultra-low-profile volume of 6x16x2.4 mm. Along with class leading miniaturization, the receiver outperforms top traditional designs handling with excellence, a loss of 10dB or greater in the GPS signal reaching, for example, the typical OBD port under a vehicle’s dashboard where many usage-based insurance (UBI) data-loggers are installed. The PTA1.5M active antenna delivers the ultra-sensitive Jupiter SE880 micro receiver over 15dB of additional gain in the operating frequency range. Both companies are making available complete application notes to simplify the engineering effort for system integrators.
 
Taneli Tuurnala, Vice-President & Head of GNSS Division, Telit Wireless Solutions, said, “Miniaturization is a major enabler of new application areas for positioning and M2M. With the Parsec antennas, the complete receiver features the industry’s ‘smallest landed footprint’, making it suitable for use in wearable electronics, UBI devices or adapters for the mobile computing industry.”
 
The PTA1.5M, with a gain of 15dB and PTA1.5x2M with a gain of 30dB, are the world’s smallest GNSS active antenna modules capable of receiving signals down to -192 dBm with frequency centered at 1575.42(±1.023) MHz. Both PTA1.5M and PTA1.5x2M can incorporate the antenna element, an optional SAW filter, the cascadable PT1233D LNA, matching and passives components, on a low-cost, easy-to-integrate10x16 mm single-sided PCBA with “back side” copper-clad ground plane.