A GPS/Galileo Software Snap-Shot Receiver for Mobile Phones

Snap-shot positioning is an efficient method for a quick position fix, especially when the necessary assistance can be easily provided from one of the mobile phones communication links. State of the art mobile phones provide enough processing power and resources usually used for multimedia applications. This paper describes a software based snap-shot receiver implementation for mobile phones, which reduces the additional hardware effort to the signal conditioning and digitizing RF front end.