Abstract: An apparatus for enabling an interrupt under certain hardware condition even though the interrupt has been masked by software, includes structure for indicating a software condition, structure for indicating a hardware condition, and structure, that is responsive to both aforementioned structures, for generating an interrupt in response to the assertion of an interrupt request signal.

Abstract: A receive signal strength indication analog-to-digital converter includes a digital portion and an analog portion. The digital portion includes structure for approximating radio frequency receive signal strength in digital form and a state machine implementing a successive approximation algorithm. The analog portion includes a digital-to-analog converter, an analog comparator, and structure for transmitting the output of the digital-to-analog converter to the analog comparator. The receive signal strength indication analog-to-digital converter also includes structure for transmitting the approximate radio frequency receive signal strength in digital form to the digital-to-analog converter and structure for transmitting the output of the comparator to the state machine.

Abstract: A control circuit for a multiplexer includes two inverters, and exclusive-NOR gate, and a d-type flip-flop. The multiplexer has two input terminals and two selection terminals, and the control circuit has two input terminals. One of the two inverters is connected in circuit between one of the two control circuit input terminals and one of the two multiplexer input terminals; the d-type flip-flop is coupled to the two multiplexer selection terminals; the exclusive-NOR gate is connected in circuit between the two control circuit input terminals and two of three input terminals of the d-type flip-flop; and the second inverter is connected in circuit between the exclusive-NOR gate and one of the three input terminals of the d-type flip-flop.