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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2013
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Vivek Pundlik Telang, Austin, TX (US);
Hong Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Vasudevan Parthasarathy, Irvine, CA (US);
Jun Cao, Irvine, CA (US);
Afshin Momtaz, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Ali Ghiasi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chung-Jue Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
According to an example embodiment, a communications receiver may include a variable gain amplifier (VGA) configured to amplify received signals, a VGA controller configured to control the VGA, a plurality of analog to digital converter (ADC) circuits coupled to an output of the VGA, wherein the plurality of ADC circuits are operational when the communications receiver is configured to process signals of a first communications protocol, and wherein only a subset of the ADC circuits are operational when the communications receiver is configured to process signals of a second communications protocol.