Re: questionable "Number of Tracking Channel" of a receiver



MikeLee wrote:

With the earlier SiRFstarIII product brief, on the front-page it claims
20 Channel GPS. On the backside, it lists 12-channel receiver. Thus it
looks like an 8 search channel + 12 tracking channel design (making it
20 channels total). Yet nearly all SiRFstarIII-based GPS products now
claim 20-channel parallel tracking.

I believe this one is pure specsmanship by marketing types who don't know what they are reading. A SiRF III can support up to 20 channels based on the bandwidth of the bus structure in the unit but the firmware dictates the implementation and when they say 12 channels there is really only 12 channels available period. At least that is my understanding.

Dale

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