Agile radar detection for wireless communications

A wireless device comprising:

• a first analog front-end coupled to a first receive physical layer (PHY) block to detect a wireless communication signal;
• a second analog front-end coupled via a crossbar routing switch to a radar detection block to search for a radar signal;
• and
• a controller configured to cause the crossbar routing switch to couple the second analog front-end to a second receive PHY block responsive to a detection of the wireless communication signal via the first receive PHY block.

A wireless device, comprising:

• a transceiver;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless device to:
• couple a first analog front-end to a first receive physical layer (PHY) block;
• couple, by a crossbar routing switch, a second analog front-end to a radar detection block;
• search for a radar signal via the radar detection block;
• and
• couple, by the crossbar routing switch, the second analog front-end to a second receive PHY block responsive to detecting a wireless communication signal via the first receive PHY block.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a wireless device, cause the wireless device to:

• couple, by a crossbar routing switch, a first analog front-end to a first receive physical layer (PHY) block;
• couple a second analog front-end to a radar detection block;
• search for a radar signal via the radar detection block;
• and
• couple, by the crossbar routing switch, the second analog front-end to a second receive PHY block responsive to detecting a wireless communication signal via the first receive PHY block.