Intel Corporation

Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

Intel Deutschland Gmbh

Werner Hein

Dietmar Wenzel

Gunther Kraut

Burkhard Neurauter

Mario Huemer

Jean-Xavier Canonici

Ralf Itjeshorst

Tudor Murgan

Thomas Puehringer

Mario Steinert

Friedrich Seebacher

Michael Wekerle

David Loesch

Siegfried Brandstaetter

Martin Polak

Wandad Sadat-Guscheh

John Oakley

Manuel Jung

Naveen Kumar Narala

Andreas Voggeneder

Time-critical actions of peripherals sharing a synchronous serial bus can be coordinated flexibly in real time by transmitting the messages through the bus well in advance of the scheduled execution time rather than 'just in time.' The messages include an action code addressed to the peripheral's shadow register and a time-to-strobe, measured in bus-clock cycles, calculated by a time protocol engine in the system controller and addressed to the peripheral's counting register. The action code is stored in the shadow register while the counting register counts up or down to the time-to-strobe using the bus-clock signal. When the count reaches zero, the action code is written to the function-control register, triggering immediate execution of the action. Because the time-to-strobe can be any number of clock cycles within the counting register's capacity, the transmission timing is decoupled from the execution timing, relaxing transmission-timing constraints.

Coordinating multiple real-time functions of a peripheral over a synchronous serial bus

Techniques and mechanisms to enable addressing of components accessed via a control interface. In an embodiment, a plurality of identifiers is logically split into first and second pools. The first pool is available for assigning to allow addressing of components while such components are active with respect to some functionality. The second pool is available for assigning to allow addressing of components while such components are passive with respect to some functionality. In another embodiment, different respective identifiers of the first pool pool are assigned each of first one or more of the plurality of components, and a respective identifier of the second pool is assigned to each of second one or more of the plurality of components. Any two of the second one or more components that have the same address default are assigned different respective identifiers of the second pool.

Apparatus, system and method for allocating identifiers to components of a control system

Described herein are devices and methods for implementing a transceiver with independently controlled components. The components may include a programmable digital portion, a dedicated digital portion, and an analog portion. Each independently controlled component includes a programmable controller that resides in the programmable digital portion of the component that controls components in the dedicated digital or analog portions using state transition information. The programmable controller is configured to accommodate a broad spectrum of state transition information and is capable of emulating a plurality of hardwired finite state machines

Control architectures for RF transceivers

A processing module, a processor circuit, an instruction set for processing data, and a method for synchronizing the processing of codes are provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a processing module for processing instructions, the instructions relating to user data and control data according to a communication protocol. The processing module includes a first processing circuit configured to process the instructions relating to the control data, and a second processing circuit configured to process the instructions relating to the user data.

Processing module, processor circuit, instruction set for processing data, and method for synchronizing the processing of codes

For example, a communication device may be provided comprising an oscillator configured to generate a reference signal; an accuracy determiner configured to determine information about an accuracy of a frequency of the reference signal; a signal detector configured to detect the presence of a radio signal; and a controller configured to control the signal detector based on the information.

Communication device and method for detecting a radio signal

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