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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2012
Mohammad Shahanshah Akhter, Ottawa, CA (US);
Brian Scott Darnell, Suwanee, GA (US);
Mohammad Shahanshah Akhter, Ottawa, CA (US);
Brian Scott Darnell, Suwanee, GA (US);
INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The method and apparatus of the present invention provides for reduced power consumption and cost while supporting wide bandwidth signals from a large number of antennas, as is required by next generation systems. In accordance with the present invention, a method and apparatus are provided for processing data in a radio unit of a communication system by receiving compressed data at one or more interfaces or internal resources of a distributed switch of a radio unit, operating the distributed switch to match the interface bandwidth to the resource bandwidth and distributing the compressed data received at the one or more interfaces or internal resources to the one or more internal resources or interfaces of the radio unit through the distributed switch.