What can GPS be used for?
GPS is very useful for navigation for aircrafts and ships. And it becomes popular in recent years for both car navigation and personal navigation devices. A smart GPS car navigation system can tell the driver not only where and what direction the car is driving right now but also how to get to the desired destination more quickly and smoothly. It can also tell the driver how to get to the nearest gas station and other interesting places such as restaurants, scenic tourist favorites. A GPS personal navigation gadget can do the same thing as a GPS car navigation system and more. It can be used in outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing, and in city navigations such as traveling.

A further extension to the navigation application is for tracking the position of a person or a car that has carried a GPS receiver for personal safety and property protection.

Other uses of GPS include map making, land surveying, scientific research, and anything in the future you may produce from your brilliant ideas and products.

How does Andes’s technology fit into this field?

To help customers build their GPS-capable SoCs, Andes offers AndeScore processor core family, associated software infrastructure such as development tools, libraries, operating systems, etc. The advantages of the Andes solution are:

Efficient processor architecture

	AndeStar 16-bit/32-bit inter-mixable instruction set: allows compiler to generate very compact code.
	AndeScore-internal DMA engines – hide memory access latency while CPU is processing.
	Flexible configuration – allows customers to choose the most efficient configuration for their applications.

	Raw CPU performance
	AndeScore processor core family provides a wide range of performance based on core selection, targeted processes, and standard cell libraries.

	Low power consumption
	AndeScores are all designed with extensive clock gating and advanced micro-architecture to reduce power. Also provided is a mechanism for customers to efficiently implement their power management.

	Low total silicon cost
	AndeScores are designed with silicon cost in mind. Careful tradeoffs are made to achieve good performance/cost and power/cost. In addition, flexible configurability gives customers to add and drop hardware features based on their own tradeoffs. The efficient inter-mixable 16-bit/32-bit instruction set further reduces the code size for the smallest ROM cost and runtime footprint.

	Powerful development tools
	standard features, plus profiling and tracing to reduce software development cycle and achieve fast product time-to-market.

	Operating Systems
	Linux for full-featured systems and Nucleus for small footprint devices.

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