Component chip for wireless communication

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. For example, a wireless communication device (WCD), may include multiple component chips configurable to work together as a partitioned chip having a capability to communicate using a quantity of spatial streams that exceeds a capacity of any one of the multiple component chips when operated independently. Some aspects more specifically relate to component chips having frequency domain components that support a first quantity of spatial streams in a frequency domain and having time domain components that support a second quantity of spatial streams in a time domain. In some examples, the first quantity of spatial streams may correspond to a quantity of spatial streams that are transmitted or received by multiple component chips, and the second quantity of spatial streams may correspond to a quantity of spatial streams that are transmitted or received by a single component chip.

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