u-blox is an international company headquartered in Switzerland, with sales organizations in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1997, u-blox develops innovative positioning technology and products for the automotive, mobile communications and infrastructure markets.

As a leading fab-less developer and provider of GPS chipsets and GPS receiver modules, u-blox will design the baseband chip capable of receiving GALILEO and GPS signals.

Other tasks assigned to u-blox include defining the overall baseband system specifications (including chip size, architecture and functionality), developing the tracking and acquisition algorithms and implementing these into hardware and software. Additionally, u-blox will develop the software that combines measurement data from GPS and GALILEO satellites, bringing greater accuracy and better performance to the system through the inclusion of a greater number of satellite data available. Extensive testing will be carried out by u-blox at each project phase to ensure performance goals are met.


ABOUT U-BLOX:

u-blox creates positioning technologies for the automotive, mobile terminal and infrastructure industries in the form of 
   * Receiver Chipsets 
   * Receiver Modules 
    * Receiver Boards 
   * Assisted GPS Services 
   * Support Products

u-blox participated in the EU FP5 EMILY project, whose aim was to develop hybrid positioning through the combination of cellphone network signals with GPS measurements to provide location data.