Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-purpose radio front-end processing circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 多用途无线电前端处理电路
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Application No.: US14708120Application Date: 2015-05-08
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Publication No.: US09572176B2Publication Date: 2017-02-14
- Inventor: Prasanna Desai , Brima Babatunde Ibrahim
- Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04B7/00 ; H04W72/12 ; H04B1/403 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for antenna and radio front-end topologies for a system-on-a-chip (SOC) device that combines Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 b/g WLAN technologies. A single chip radio device that supports WLAN and Bluetooth technologies receives a WLAN signal in a WLAN processing circuitry of the radio front-end and in a Bluetooth processing circuitry of the radio front-end. Signals generated by the WLAN processing circuitry and the Bluetooth processing circuitry from the received WLAN signal may be combined in a diversity combiner that utilizes selection diversity gain combining or maximal ratio combining (MRC). When a generated signal is below a threshold value, the signal may be dropped from the combining operation. A single antenna usage model may be utilized with the single chip radio device front-end topology to support WLAN and Bluetooth communications.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150245372A1 MULTI-PURPOSE RADIO FRONT-END PROCESSING CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2015-08-27
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