Abstract: One example discloses a multi-radio device, including: a controller configured to be coupled to a radio; wherein the controller is configured to receive a request to communicate a signal with an initial communication priority from the radio; wherein the controller includes a priority offset module configured to, adjust the initial communication priority by a first offset; and wherein the controller includes a priority escalator module configured to, adjust the initial communication priority by a second offset.

Abstract: One example discloses a multi-radio device, including: a controller configured to be coupled to a radio; wherein the controller is configured to receive a request to communicate a signal with an initial communication priority from the radio; wherein the controller includes a priority offset module configured to, adjust the initial communication priority by a first offset; and wherein the controller includes a priority escalator module configured to, adjust the initial communication priority by a second offset.

Abstract: Improvements associated with determining a location of a station device are described. According to one improvement, a method is performed by a network device. The method includes receiving a response packet from a station device, multiple times, as received signals by switching between a plurality of antennas of the network device during reception of each occurrence of the response packet. The received signals are converted to corrupted orthogonal samples. The response packet is received from the station device a final time as a final response packet via a single antenna of the plurality of antennas. Ideal orthogonal samples are re-generated based at least in part on the final response packet. Signal phase information, embedded in the corrupted and ideal orthogonal samples, is converted into estimated locations of the station device.

Abstract: This invention relates to a single-chip USB-to-Ethernet controller that can operate either as a standalone USB-to-Ethernet controller integrated circuit chip in one mode, or the Ethernet PHY or the USB-to-Rev-MII Bridging chip in another mode, namely Dual-PHY mode, to interface with an external Network Microcontroller's Ethernet MAC for providing Ethernet and USB Device interface in a network communication system and to provide a mechanism for auto-detection and auto-selection between the Ethernet interface and USB Device interface through some Station Management Register access wherein the Network Microcontroller's Ethernet MAC can access two PHY devices through the same Station Management Interface.

Abstract: This invention relates to an advanced system and method of reprogrammable boot codes and In Application Programming (IAP) of embedded systems by booting up with boot loader to shadow program codes on to an internal high speed SRAM and extending contiguously to external higher space memory for runtime applications, and supporting on-line IAP to update run-time firmware or boot loader driver through network communication by utilizing advanced address remapping scheme as well as supporting In System Programming (ISP) to program initial Flash memory via ISP adaptor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a reprogrammable built-in-self-test integrated circuit and a test method for the same, wherein test programs are directly stored in the application program memory of the logic chip of a SoC IC, and an external test apparatus is used to load the test programs into the application program memory via a serial transmission interface, and an application CPU is used to read and execute the test programs to perform the bonding-wire connectivity between the logic chip and the memory chip. In the present invention, test vectors can still be flexibly revised after tapeout to increase test coverage. As the test programs are directly stored in the existing application program memory without using additional memory space, and as the test programs are executed by the existing application CPU without using an extra built-in-self-test circuit, the present invention can effectively reduce test cost.

Abstract: This invention relates to a single-chip USB-to-Ethernet controller that can operate either as a standalone USB-to-Ethernet controller integrated circuit chip in one mode, or the Ethernet PHY or the USB-to-Rev-MII Bridging chip in another mode, namely Dual-PHY mode, to interface with an external Network Microcontroller's Ethernet MAC for providing Ethernet and USB Device interface in a network communication system and to provide a mechanism for auto-detection and auto-selection between the Ethernet interface and USB Device interface through some Station Management Register access wherein the Network Microcontroller's Ethernet MAC can access two PHY devices through the same Station Management Interface.

Abstract: This invention relates to an advanced system and method of reprogrammable boot codes and In Application Programming (IAP) of embedded systems by booting up with boot loader to shadow program codes on to an internal high speed SRAM and extending contiguously to external higher space memory for runtime applications, and supporting on-line IAP to update run-time firmware or boot loader driver through network communication by utilizing advanced address remapping scheme as well as supporting In System Programming (ISP) to program initial Flash memory via ISP adaptor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a reprogrammable built-in-self-test integrated circuit and a test method for the same, wherein test programs are directly stored in the application program memory of the logic chip of a SoC IC, and an external test apparatus is used to load the test programs into the application program memory via a serial transmission interface, and an application CPU is used to read and execute the test programs to perform the bonding-wire connectivity between the logic chip and the memory chip. In the present invention, test vectors can still be flexibly revised after tapeout to increase test coverage. As the test programs are directly stored in the existing application program memory without using additional memory space, and as the test programs are executed by the existing application CPU without using an extra built-in-self-test circuit, the present invention can effectively reduce test cost.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a burst transfer mechanism of network packets having MAC frames over USB bus, which is designed in an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) being installed in a USB compliant networking device, enabling the networking device to assemble a plurality of Ethernet network packets having MAC frames together as a super-size network packet and, while receiving a Bulk In/Out request packet, transfer the super-size network packet into a plurality of USB packets having maximum packet size defined for the USB endpoint, and transmit the USB packets out within a burst cycle of Bulk In/Out transaction, in order to greatly improve and enhance the throughput performance of the network packets over USB bus.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a burst transfer mechanism of network packets having MAC frames over USB bus, which is designed in an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) being installed in a USB compliant networking device, enabling the networking device to assemble a plurality of Ethernet network packets having MAC frames together as a super-size network packet and, while receiving a Bulk In/Out request packet, transfer the super-size network packet into a plurality of USB packets having maximum packet size defined for the USB endpoint, and transmit the USB packets out within a burst cycle of Bulk In/Out transaction, in order to greatly improve and enhance the throughput performance of the network packets over USB bus.