Voice data RF GPS integrated circuit
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorAhmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
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Abstract
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a GPS receiver, an RF section, and an interface module. The GPS receiver module is coupled to recover a plurality of coarse/acquisition (C/A) signals and a plurality of navigation messages from a plurality of down converted GPS signals. The RF section is coupled to convert an inbound RF voice signal into the inbound voice symbol stream; convert the outbound voice symbol stream into an outbound RF voice signal; convert an inbound RF data signal into the inbound data symbol stream; convert the outbound data symbol stream into an outbound RF data signal; and convert a plurality of GPS RF signals into the plurality of down converted GPS signals.
Claims20
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises:
- a baseband processing module coupled to:
- convert an outbound voice signal into an outbound voice symbol stream;
- convert an inbound voice symbol stream into an inbound voice signal;
- convert outbound data into an outbound data symbol stream;
- and
- convert an inbound data symbol stream into inbound data;
- a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver module coupled to recover a plurality of coarse/acquisition (C/A) signals and a plurality of navigation messages from a plurality of down converted GPS signals;
- a radio frequency (RF) section coupled to:
- convert an inbound RF voice signal into the inbound voice symbol stream;
- convert the outbound voice symbol stream into an outbound RF voice signal;
- convert an inbound RF data signal into the inbound data symbol stream;
- convert the outbound data symbol stream into an outbound RF data signal;
- convert a plurality of GPS RF signals into the plurality of down converted GPS signals;
- and
- an interface module coupled to:
- convey the inbound voice symbol stream and the outbound voice symbol stream between the baseband processing module and the RF section;
- convey the inbound data symbol stream and the outbound data symbol stream between the baseband processing module and the RF section;
- and
- convey the plurality of down converted GPS signals from the RF section to the GPS receiver module.
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises:
- a voice baseband processing module coupled to:
- convert an outbound voice signal into an outbound voice symbol stream;
- convert an inbound voice symbol stream into an inbound voice signal;
- a data baseband processing module coupled to:
- convert outbound data into an outbound data symbol stream;
- and
- convert an inbound data symbol stream into inbound data;
- a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver module coupled to recover a plurality of coarse/acquisition (C/A) signals and a plurality of navigation messages from a plurality of down converted GPS signals;
- a configurable radio frequency (RF) section, wherein, when the configurable RF section is a voice mode, the configurable RF section is coupled to:
- convert an inbound RF voice signal into the inbound voice symbol stream;
- and
- convert the outbound voice symbol stream into an outbound RF voice signal;
- wherein, when the configurable RF section is a data mode, the configurable RF section is coupled to:
- convert an inbound RF data signal into the inbound data symbol stream;
- and
- convert the outbound data symbol stream into an outbound RF data signal;
- wherein, when the configurable RF section is a GPS mode, the configurable RF section is coupled to convert a plurality of GPS RF signals into the plurality of down converted GPS signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.