Acronym · Analog, RF & Mixed-Signal
GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)
The collective term for satellite positioning constellations including GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. Receivers correlate extremely weak spread-spectrum signals, which places severe demands on front-end noise figure and reference stability.
- Also known as
- GPS (one constellation)
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- Acronym
- Domain
- Analog, RF & Mixed-Signal, Wireless technology
Notes
Multi-band receivers using L1 and L5 improved urban accuracy by rejecting multipath, and appeared in phones from around 2018.
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