Application programming interface (api) for a receiver in a wireless communications device

The apparatus of claim of 2 wherein the ASIC is configured to provide the physical layer.

The apparatus of claim of 23 wherein the ASIC is configured to implement the physical layer.

A method of communications, comprising:

• receiving a signal in accordance with a protocol stack comprising a physical layer, MAC layer, control layer and stream layer, the physical and MAC layers, the control and stream layers being implemented with a media processing system, and the control and stream layers being implement with a receiver stack processing system;
• and
• supporting service requests with an application programming interface (API) from the receiver stack processing system to the media processing system.

A machine-readable medium comprising instructions executable by one or more processors in an apparatus, the apparatus being configured to receive a signal in accordance with a protocol stack comprising a physical layer, MAC layer, control layer and stream layer, the physical and MAC layers being implemented with a media processing system, and the control and stream layers being implement with a receiver stack processing system, the instructions comprising:

• a receiver stack code segment to implement the receiver stack processing system;
• and
• an application programming interface (API) code segment to support service requests from the receiver stack processing system to the media processing system.