Atheros GPS Receiver Evaluation Kit ( EVK)

Atheros offers their Evaluation Kit (EVK) complete with software and an integrated daughterboard, the Evaluation Kit (EVK) is a full-featured GPS receiver that provides a conventional platform to evaluate the performance of the receiver hardware and Orion software. A key feature of the EVK is the Orion Analyzer, a GPS environment analysis tool that allows the user to monitor satellite
signal strengths, locations and NMEA output stream.

Atheros GPS Software Development Kit (SDK)

An ORION v2.2 Software Development Kit (SDK) is also available, providing developers with the freedom to customize and add functional blocks to meet application specific requirements.

Atheros GPS Software Porting Kit (SPK)

Install n Go™ software is available for easy installation of the ORION hosted software in Windows Mobile OS®. For non-Windows Mobile OS® Atheros' software Porting Kit (SPK) supports porting to any desired RTOS.  The SPK includes the ORION Host Abstraction Layer source code, ORION Library Files (support for unique compilers by Atheros), Windows reference software solution, Linux 2.6 reference software solution (Eclipse sample project and modified kernel included), and documentation.

Software Porting Kit

• Hosted Orion Software Porting Kit
  • Allows for porting of hosted Orion to any host environment
• Features
  • Reference Implementations
    • For both Windows Mobile and Linux
  • Portable Operating System
    • Operating System Abstraction Layer
    • Provided in source code format
    • Requires only a single native task and no dynamic memory allocation
  • Sample Applications
    • Initializes uN3010 and hosted Orion
    • Integration with host application to exchange data (NMEA, AGPS) with host environment
    • GUI for Windows Mobile
  • Documentation
    • SPK User Guide
  • Supported Environments
    • Any Operating System, RTOS, or “home-grown” scheduler

Orion SPK Features

• Supports porting to any OS
  • WinCE, Linux, more…
  • Single Task model RTOS supported
  • Single function call model supported
• Portable Operating System
  • Operating System abstraction layer
  • Provided in source code format
  • Requires only a single native task and no dynamic memory allocation
• Orion navigation library files
  • Atheros provides support for unique compilers
• Software Reference Kit for Windows Mobile
  • Sample application and source code provided
  • Sample Windows Mobile Project
• Sample implementations for Linux
  • Eclipse Sample Project
  • Modified kernel for Linux 2.6

Documentation:

Please contact your local Atheros Sales Representative to request Product Briefs, Datasheets or User Manuals.