Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Christopher S Gregg

Michael R May

John M Khoury

Dan Bernard Kasha

Javier Elenes

Russell Croman

Gerald D Champagne

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving and processing an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal in a receiver. Based on this signal, an environmental noise level can be determined, where this level corresponds to environmental noise present in an environment in which the receiver is located. Then, if the environmental noise level is substantially greater than receiver-generated noise, power consumption of at least one analog front end component of the receiver can be reduced.

Performing power control in a receiver based on environmental noise

A receiver including first circuitry configured to combine corresponding soft decision values from at least two groups of RDS/RBDS data transmitted as part of a broadcast channel to generate a set of combined values and second circuitry configured to identify a subset of the combined values that indicate a relatively constant subset of the received values from the at least two groups of the RDS/RBDS data is provided.

System and method for transmitting RDS/RBDS data

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Christopher S Gregg