Abstract: An apparatus includes a device package, a first Integrated Circuit (IC) that is packaged in the device package, and a second IC, which is packaged in the device package and is fabricated on a multi-layer interconnection circuit including a plurality of interconnection layers for interconnecting components of the second IC, wherein a selected layer in the plurality is configured to serve as a conductive shield for reducing interference between the first and second ICs.

Abstract: A tuner for a wireless receiver is provided, which may include an input interface that is adapted to receive wireless signals, a mixer that is adapted to select a specific frequency from signals received at the input interface, and a controllable switch that is adapted to lead an output from the mixer towards a base-band unit of the receiver and to disconnect the output. The tuner may further include a controller which may be adapted to operate the controllable switch to disconnect the output of the mixer when the controller studies characteristics of the tuner and to reconnect the output of the mixer at other times. The studied characteristics may be associated with parasitic direct current voltages in the tuner, which may be associated with a low noise amplifier of the tuner, or programmable gain amplifier of the tuner or with both amplifiers.

Abstract: A method includes, in a receiver that operates using multiple clock signals having respective clock frequencies, accepting a request to receive a target channel frequency. In response to the request, a set of preferred clock frequencies is calculated, which when applied by the receiver will cause the receiver to tune to the target channel frequency while satisfying a predefined criterion relating to interference caused by the clock signals. The target channel frequency is received by setting the clock signals to the preferred clock frequencies.

Abstract: A receiver is provided, which is adapted to receive MPE-FEC frames and to correct erroneous sections within a received MPE-FEC frame by detecting unreliable sections and storing in an erasure list (“ESL”) table compressed data that includes the base address of each detected erroneous section, together with the respective section's size. The size of the ESL table may be fixed, or it may correlate, or dynamically change according to the actual number of detected erroneous sections. The data stored in the erasure list may then be forwarded to a decoder to correct erroneous sections. The erroneous sections may be detected by using CRC, and the decoder may be a Reed-Solomon decoder.

Abstract: A method of storing DVB-H data from a DVB-H data burst, the method comprising: identifying erasures in the data burst; and storing non-erasure data from the data burst in memory locations of a memory that would be used to store erasures.

Abstract: A method of mitigating power consumption in a DVB-H receiver is provided. The method may include predicting reception error(s) associated with a data burst to be received by the receiver, and deciding, based on the prediction result, to process or to eschew processing of MPE-FEC redundancy section(s) associated with the data burst, prior to the reception of the data burst. Predicting may include evaluating reception quality before receiving the data burst, by using data provided by the receiver's demodulator, wherein evaluating may be based on calculating a reception function (F) at the receiver, by using measured or calculated, scaled or weighted, parameter(s) associated with data received prior to the reception of the data burst. MPE-FEC redundancy section(s) associated with a received data burst may be processed only if the value of the reception function F is greater than a predetermined threshold value. Predicting may be based on data provided by the receiver's MPE-FEC unit.