Altair Semiconductor Ltd.

Edan Almog

Yigal Bitran

Nohik Semel

Yoel Livne

Eli Zyss

Nadav Cohen

A method for communication in a receiver () includes receiving over a wireless communication channel a signal that carries at least a control channel. A first estimate of a response of the wireless communication channel is computed using a first estimation process having a first latency, and the control channel is decoded based on the first estimate. Upon identifying, based on the decoded control channel, a time period during which no data channel is to be addressed to the receiver, circuitry () of the receiver is shut down for at least part of the identified time period. A second estimate of the response is computed using a second estimation process having a second latency, higher than the first latency, and a data channel that is addressed to the receiver is decoded based on the second estimate.

Intermittent shutoff of RF circuitry in wireless communication terminals

A processor includes one or more processing units, an execution pipeline and control circuitry. The execution pipeline includes at least first and second pipeline stages that are cascaded so that program instructions, specifying operations to be performed by the processing units in successive cycles of the pipeline, are fetched from a memory by the first pipeline stage and conveyed to the second pipeline stage, which causes the processing units to perform the specified operations. The control circuitry is coupled, upon determining that a program instruction that is present in the second pipeline stage in a first cycle of the pipeline is to be executed again in a subsequent cycle of the pipeline, to cause the execution pipeline to reuse the program instruction in one of the pipeline stages without re-fetching the program instruction from the memory.

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Edan Almog