Hi All
Am considering the idea of a hardware parser for gps / nmea strings.
It would be relatively easy to use a single chip pic solution as a hardware parser. All that would be required as far as hardware is a serial line for receiving serial strings from the gps module/ unit. Comms with another microcontroller etc could be via spi or i2c.
Sure it is not that hard to write a parser for nmea but it would sure save a lot of hassles if hardware parser were to exist where the user could query registers on the parser chip for lat/ long/ speed etc via i2c.
A pic would be ideal for this purpose because you could use the internal oscilator and have it as a onboard oscillator.
Sure I could build this up and make money, but I’ll leave that to sparkfun if they are interested.
Thanks
Bruce