Abstract: A game device such as a sporting good or video game device uses an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a gyrating circuit to measure at least one motion parameter of the device. An RF transmitter wirelessly transmits the at least one motion parameter to a remote device.

Abstract: A circuit for use in a wireless communication device includes a on-chip gyrating circuit that generates a motion parameter based on motion of the circuit. A GPS receiver receives a GPS signal and that generates GPS position data based on the GPS signal. A processing module processes the motion parameter to produce motion data and generates position information based on the GPS position data and the motion data. A wireless telephone transceiver generates an outbound RF signal that includes outbound voice data and position information and that generates voice inbound data from an inbound RF signal.

Abstract: An antenna system includes an antenna, a transmission line, an inductor module, a tunable capacitor module, and control logic. The transmission line is coupled to the antenna and to the inductor module. The tunable capacitor module is coupled to the transmission line in accordance with a capacitance control signal to provide a desired capacitance such that inductance of the inductor module and the desired capacitance tunes the antenna system. The control logic is coupled to generate the capacitance control signal based on the operational parameters.

Abstract: A radio transmitter front-end for use in a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a phase correction module that produces a phase adjusted signal in response to a phase modulated signal and at least one phase correction signal. An amplitude correction module produces an amplitude adjusted signal in response to an amplitude modulating signal and an amplitude correction signal. An amplifier amplifies the phase adjusted signal and amplitude modulates the phase adjusted signal, based on the amplitude adjusted signal, to produce a polar coordinate transmit signal. A correction generation module generates the at least one phase correction signal and the amplitude correction signal, based on the polar coordinate transmit signal and the phase adjusted signal.

Abstract: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a driver that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module from an up-converted signal. A modulation controller provides a first modulation signal to the driver for modulating the up-converted signal when a modulation control signal has a first value and provides a second modulation signal to the power amplifier module for modulating the RF signal when the modulation control signal has a second value.

Abstract: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a transmitter processing module, coupled to receive outbound data and to produce processed data in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of protocols and that generates a control signal based on the selected on of the plurality of protocols. A digital up conversion module produces a digital up-converted signal from the processed data. A radio receiver front end includes a programmable power amplifier that produces a transmit signal from the digital up-converted signal in accordance with the selected one of the plurality of protocols, based on the control signal.

Abstract: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a first radio frequency (RF) receiver section coupled to receive a first inbound RF signal over a first range of frequencies and generate a first amplified RF signal, wherein the first inbound RF signal includes a desired RF signal and an undesired signal. A second RF receiver section is coupled to receive a second inbound RF signal over a second range of frequencies that is different from the first range of frequencies and generate a second amplified RF signal, wherein the second inbound RF signal includes the undesired signal. A first RF cancellation module provides the desired RF signal while attenuating the undesired signal.

Abstract: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter that generates a transmit signal contemporaneously containing both outbound realtime data and outbound non-realtime data. The integrated circuit optionally includes an RF receiver that contemporaneously generates both outbound realtime data and outbound non-realtime data from a received signal.

Abstract: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit includes a processing module that generates at least one control signal that indicates a receive calibration mode. An RF transmitter generates a transmit signal that includes a first calibration signal when the at least one control signal indicates the receive calibration mode. An RF receiver receives a received signal that includes the first calibration signal and generates at least one receiver equalization parameter for equalizing the RF receiver in response to receiver feedback signals, when the at least one control signal indicates the receive calibration mode.

Abstract: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a transmitter processing module, coupled to receive outbound data and to produce processed data in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of protocols and that generates a control signal based on the selected on of the plurality of protocols. A digital up conversion module produces a digital up-converted signal from the processed data. A radio receiver front end produces a transmit signal from the digital up-converted signal in accordance with the selected one of the plurality of protocols, based on the control signal.

Abstract: A voice, data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter that generates a transmit signal from outbound data. An RF receiver that generates inbound data from a received signal. A processing module generates a control signal to select either a receive mode or a transmit mode for the RF transmitter and the RF receiver, the control signal having a first value when the receive mode is selected and a second value when the transmit mode is selected. A transmit/receive switch couples the transmit signal to an antenna when the control signal has a second value, and produces the received signal based on an inbound RF signal to the antenna when the control signal has a first value, wherein the transmit/receive switch includes an on-chip microelectromechanical switch.

Abstract: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter, that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module. A memory module stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a plurality of modes that each correspond to one of a plurality of use characteristics. A processing module executes the plurality of operational instructions and determines a selected one of the plurality of modes based on current use characteristics of the at least one application, and generates at least one control signal based on the selected one of the plurality of modes. A bias control generator generates a bias control signal in response to the at least one control signal, to control the biasing of the power amplifier module.

Abstract: A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) receives at least one power status signal indicating an inductive power status of an off-chip inductive power module, the inductive power status including an inductive power ready state, and the at least one power status signal further indicating a battery power status of a battery. A selected one of a plurality of power modes is determined based on the at least one power status signal. A power mode signal is generated based on the selected one of the plurality of power modes. A plurality of power supply signals are generated based on the power mode signal.

Abstract: An architecture to compensate for the non-linear effects of magnetic media, such as magnetic disk drives, that distorts data transitions when data is written to the media and in which the non-linear distortion is data sequence dependent. In one technique a circuit is used to alter the data transitions to cancel the effects of the transition distortion. The circuit employs selected delays that that based on the data sequence to adjust the transition edge of bits of the data to provide the pre-compensation before data is written to the disk.

Abstract: An RF transceiver system includes a configurable antenna system that includes an antenna control module that is capable of controlling the configurable antenna system, in response to a control signal, to each of a plurality of antenna configurations. An RF receiver receives a received signal from the configurable antenna system in a receive mode and generates inbound data from the received signal, the inbound data including received antenna control data received from a first remote station. A processing module generates the control signal in response to the received antenna control data to command the antenna control module to control the configurable antenna system to a selected one of the plurality of antenna configurations.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) bus controller includes an interface and a processing module. The interface is coupled for communicating intra-device RF bus access requests and allocations. The processing module is coupled to receive an access request to an RF bus via the interface; determine RF bus resource availability; and when sufficient RF bus resources are available to fulfill the access request, allocate, via the interface, at least one RF bus resource in response to the access request.

Abstract: An RF transceiver system includes an RF transmitter that generates a transmit signal and an RF receiver that receives a received signal. A diplexer couples the transmit signal to an antenna, produces the received signal based on an inbound RF signal to the antenna, and isolates the transmit signal from the received signal. A mismatch detection module detects an impedance mismatch at the output of the RF transmitter by processing the transmit signal and the received signal and generates a mismatch feedback signal in response to an amount of detected mismatch. A processing module controls the amount of mismatch at the output of the RF transmitter in response to the mismatch feedback signal.

Abstract: A method for accessing an RF begins by determining whether information is to be transmitted via the RF bus. The method continues by determining whether the RF bus is available when the information is to be transmitted via the RF bus. The method continues by securing access to the RF bus when the RF bus is available. The method continues by converting the information into RF bus signal and by transmitting the RF bus signal via the RF bus when access to the RF bus is secured.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) transceiver device includes a processing module, memory, a baseband processing module, an RF section, an RF bus, and an RF bus controller. The processing module and the memory include an RF bus transceiver. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into an outbound symbol stream and to convert an inbound symbol stream into inbound data. The RF section is coupled to convert the outbound symbol stream into an outbound RF signal and to convert an inbound RF signal into the inbound symbol stream. The RF bus controller is coupled to control access to an RF bus for providing the outbound data as an RF bus outbound data signal from the processing module RF bus transceiver or from the memory RF bus transceiver and to control access to the RF bus for providing the inbound data as an RF bus inbound data signal to the processing module RF bus transceiver or to the memory RF bus transceiver.

Abstract: A device includes a plurality of ICs and an RF bus structure. Each IC includes a plurality of circuit modules, a switching module, an RF bus transceiver, an antenna interface, and an antenna structure. The switching module provides controlled access to the RF bus transceiver, which communicates via the RF bus structure, among the plurality of circuit modules for external IC communications and provides connectivity among the circuit modules for internal IC communications.