FirstGPS architecture puts GPS capability where it couldn't go before
Trimble's FirstGPS™ architecture is a host-based GPS technology breakthrough that enables OEMs to integrate GPS location capability into their products using far less power and space than previously possible. The architecture is especially suited to mobile, battery-powered applications such as cell phones, pagers, PDAs, digital cameras, automobile navigation systems, and many others.

FirstGPS architecture consists primarily of two integrated circuits and FirstGPS software. It provides a GPS "measurement platform" that performs the processor-intensive GPS tracking and processing tasks and enables the host CPU to calculate the actual position, velocity, and time (PVT) solutions at its own pace, without burdening other applications running on the device.

Trimble's FirstGPS capability is available both in chipset form (through Infineon Technologies) and in modular form such as the Trimble M-Loc MPM module.