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Multi-protocol communications receiver with shared analog front-end

US8964907B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Broadcom Corporation · US

Inventors

Vivek Telang · Austin, US
Hong Chen · Irvine, US
Vasudevan Parthasarathy · Irvine, US
Jun Cao · Irvine, US
Afshin Momtaz · Irvine, US
Ali Ghiasi · Cupertino, US
Chung-Jue Chen · Irvine, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 26, 2013
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 20, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04B1/406
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

According to an example embodiment, a communications receiver may include a variable gain amplifier (VGA) configured to amplify received signals, a VGA controller configured to control the VGA, a plurality of analog to digital converter (ADC) circuits coupled to an output of the VGA, wherein the plurality of ADC circuits are operational when the communications receiver is configured to process signals of a first communications protocol, and wherein only a subset of the ADC circuits are operational when the communications receiver is configured to process signals of a second communications protocol.

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