{baud, NMEA} setting functions for venus GPS chip it is just a copy&paste stuff of these code written by shimniok. http://mbed.org/users/shimniok/code/AVC_2012/docs/tip/GPS_8cpp_source.html https://www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/GPS/Modules/AN0003_v1.4.14_FlashOnly.pdf