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Not Alan Partridge tells us: "I was once offered the chance to co-present a programme on national radio. Audience of millions, but blew up spectacularly, my entire contribution being the rustling of paper in the background. I was that bad, I have since burned my copy of the pilot show." Tell us about your big break, and how you messed it up.

(, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 14:22)
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Garmin had a single package GPS receiver. Two or possibly three chips: rf and mixed signal plus their own (iirc) in-house DSP with an ARM core. They wanted to ditch the ARM and share the processor of the host devicee
I don't recall what TomTom used as we only did a bit of consultancy about integrating with US cell phone platforms.

If they were doing field tests then they'd almost certainly use laptops for gathering debug data. Perhaps that's what you were remembering?

Hth.

Still no idea what your previous post says.
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