# US 10,455,511 B2 · Wireless circuitry with scalable accuracy

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- Number: US 10,455,511 B2
- Document ID: US10455511B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/872,015
- Filed: 2015-09-30
- Published: 2017-03-30
- Granted: 2019-10-22
- Earliest claimed: 2015-09-30
- Assignees: Intel IP Corporation
- Applicants: Intel IP Corporation
- Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10455511B2

## CPC

- H04W 52/0287: {changing the clock frequency of a controller in the equipment}
- H04W 52/0209: {in terminal devices}
- H04W 52/0229: {where the received signal is a wanted signal}
- H04W 52/028: {switching on or off only a part of the equipment circuit blocks}
- H04W 52/32: TPC of broadcast or control channels
- Y02D 30/70: in wireless communication networks
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- Y02D: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE

## Abstract

Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing scalable power in a wireless device. Multiple radio access technology architectures running different operating clock frequencies are supported by providing a scaled static clock frequency and dynamic clock frequencies by dynamically switching parallel paths of processing resources.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of adjusting clock frequency in a transmitting or receiving device comprising:
determining a particular accuracy of transmitting or receiving by the device;
allocating one or more parallel processing resources to adjust for the particular accuracy; and
dynamically switching one or more parallel paths on or off to respectively connect the one or more parallel processing resources to process data signals based on the particular accuracy, the data signals being indicative of at least one quantization step, and the dynamic switching of the one or more parallel paths being related to the at least one quantization step.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting clock frequency is based on a static clock.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, further comprises:
determining a lower bandwidth of operation for the device to generate a lower static frequency for the static clock, and determining a higher bandwidth operation for the device to generate a higher static frequency for the static clock.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting clock frequency is based on a dynamic clock.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the allocating one or more parallel processing resources is based on a received data signal.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein determining the particular accuracy is based on one or more of the following:
bandwidth of a received data signal;
end and beginning of bandwidth of the data signal;
gap between several bandwidth allocations needed by the data signal;
output power of the device;
band used to transmit from the device; and
data signal values.

### Claim 7

A modem device comprising:
an interface configured to receive a data signal from a radio access technology;
a scaled static clock configured to support the radio access technology; and
a plurality of parallel paths for processing resources that are dynamically switched on or off to generate a particular clock frequency supporting the radio access technology, the received data signal being indicative of at least one quantization step, and the dynamic switching of the plurality of parallel paths being related to the at least one quantization step.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The device of claim 7, wherein the received data signal determines an accuracy.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The device of claim 8, wherein the accuracy is related to the particular clock frequency provided by the parallel paths that are dynamically switched on or off.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The device of claim 7, wherein the scaled static clock is configured from a lower bandwidth operation at a lower static frequency and higher bandwidth operation at a higher static frequency.

### Claim 11 (depends on 7)

The device of claim 7, wherein accuracy is related to number of physical resource blocks that are allocated to support communication for the radio access technology.

### Claim 12 (depends on 7)

The device of claim 7, wherein accuracy is related to one or more of the following: bandwidth of the data signal; end and beginning of resource block; output of the device; band used to transmit; gap between resource block allocations and data signal values.

### Claim 13 (depends on 7)

The device of claim 7, wherein the plurality of parallel paths for processing resources are configured to perform digital operations on the received data signal.

### Claim 14

A wireless device comprising:
one or more processors;
memory coupled to the processors, wherein the memory comprises one or more lookup tables;
a modem coupled to the processors and memory, wherein the memory comprising a scaled static clock and parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off to provide particular operating frequencies to support multiple radio access technologies located on the wireless device,
wherein received data signals determine quantization steps, and
wherein the parallel paths of the resources that are dynamically switched on and off are related to the quantization steps.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The wireless device of claim 14, wherein the lookup tables determine which radio access technologies, band requirements, operating frequencies and which parallel paths of resources to switch on.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The wireless device of claim 15, wherein band requirements include lower frequency and upper frequency of received data signals.

### Claim 17 (depends on 14)

The wireless device of claim 14, wherein the lookup tables relate an accuracy with one or more of the following: bandwidth of a data signal; end and beginning of bandwidth of the data signal; gap between several bandwidth allocations needed by the data signal; output power of the wireless device; band frequency used to transmit; and data signal values.

### Claim 18 (depends on 14)

The wireless device of claim 14, wherein the parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off to provide particular operating frequencies are related to a dynamic clock.

### Claim 19 (depends on 14)

The wireless device of claim 14, wherein the parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off are related to received data signals.
