Abstract: A front-end used for processing communication signals in a received path including an antenna cable segment that receives the communication signals. A RF segment provides mixing and filtering of the received signals, the RF segment outputs a first set of signals. An analog baseband segment performs low pass filtering and digitizes the first set of signals in order to input a second set of signals for further processing. The RF segment and the analog baseband segment includes a selective set of components that are power programmable, such that the power consumption of the selective set of components are controlled by bias currents delivered to each of the selective components. In another embodiment, the components of a transmit path are also power programmable via bias current. In another embodiment, the ADCs and DACs of a receive and transmit paths are power programmable via bias current and reconfigurable blocks of ADC and DAC cores.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for enabling the use of spatially distributed multichannel wireless access points or base stations. There is enabled a setup which allows frequency reuse whilst still giving many clients around the access points access to the multiple channel capability of each access point. This allows larger overall communication bandwidths to be obtained on average, even within the constraints of frequency reuse.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for variably adjusting transmission bandwidth over communications channels such as wireless local area networks (WLAN5) and wired channels such as cable lines. The system includes a programmable high speed data converter provided as part of a programmable front end interfacing to a communications channel. A controller coupled to the programmable front end analyzes a frequency spectrum to determine a required bandwidth for transmission of data and adjusts system filter characteristics to avoid unused portions of a spectrum thereby allowing the system to use less power than would otherwise be used if the system used the entire available spectrum.