Patent ID: 9621312
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A wireless receiver, comprising: a plurality of receiving paths, wherein a particular receiving path can be configured to operate at a same or different frequency as that of a different receiving path, and wherein a particular receiving path includes at least one frequency mixer; a number of local oscillators; and a configurable multiplexer comprising a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, wherein the plurality of inputs are coupled to the local oscillators, wherein the plurality of outputs are coupled to the plurality of receiving paths in a way that different outputs of the multiplexer are coupled to different receiving paths with each receiving path comprising an inphase signal path and a quadrature signal path, and wherein the multiplexer is configured in such a way as to allow a particular local oscillator to couple to frequency mixers of a subset of the plurality of receiving paths, thereby enabling flexible provisioning of the local oscillators.