BCM4775X
Product Brief
GNSS Receiver with Integrated Sensor
Hub
Overview
The Broadcom® BCM4775X family of chips is the latest generation of
Broadcom sensor hub microcontrollers with integrated GNSS (Global
Navigation Satellite System). The BCM4775X includes many sensor hub and
GNSS innovations.
The synergistic benefits of combining sensor hub and GNSS chips into one
single chip include low system-level power consumption and a smaller PCB
footprint with fewer BOM components than multiple-chip solutions.
The BCM4775X family includes a dual-processor architecture (ARM
CM4+CM0) that ensures each task is handled in the most power-efficient
manner. The BCM4775X includes a new RF architecture, enabling the
lowest power consumption at any received signal condition.
Key Features
• Integrated multi-frequency GNSS
baseband and RF front end for
simultaneous reception of GPS,
GLONASS, BeiDou (BDS), Galileo
(GAL), and SBAS satellite systems
The BCM4775X achieves system-level performance benefits from tightly
integrating the sensor and GNSS signals. Measurements from sensors such
as accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, and others are fused with
GNSS measurements to provide a highly accurate, cross-calibrated output
to applications while lowering system power. Cross-calibration is achieved
by using sensor measurements to aid GNSS for small movements and by
using GNSS to calibrate sensor measurements, the latter having inherent
drift that accumulates over time and larger movements.
• Support for position batching,
geofencing, sensor fusion and sensor
navigation
• ARM-based 32-bit Cortex-M4F (CM4)
CPU:
−Single-precision Floating Point Unit
(FPU)
The BCM47755 chip supports two frequencies (L1+L5), and as a result,
achieves lane-level accuracy outdoors and much higher resistance to
multipath and reflected signals in urban scenarios, as well as higher
immunity to interference and jamming. The BCM47755 can simultaneously
receive the following signals:
−Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
−1.125 MB internal SRAM (single-cycle
access at full-speed)
−1 MB ROM with bootloader capability
• GPS L1 C/A
• GLONASS L1
• BeiDou (BDS) B1
• QZSS L1
−Single Instruction Multiple Data
(SIMD) and Digital Signal Processing
(DSP) functions
−1.25 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz
−Operating frequency up to 150 MHz
• ARM-based Cortex-M0 (CM0) CPU:
• Galileo (GAL) E1
• GPS L5
−Allows CM4 to sleep by offloading
light processes
• Galileo E5a
• QZSS L5
−32 KB RAM
−Operating frequency of up to 75 MHz
GNSS Receiver with Integrated Sensor Hub