Patent ID: 8687524
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A software-defined radio (SDR), comprising: a radio frequency front end providing wireless reception of at least two communications services; a baseband unit comprising a general purpose processor with special purpose software to provide baseband processing of said communications services tuned by the radio frequency front end; a device configured and arranged to decide if conflicts in said baseband processing would exceed peak computational capabilities of the baseband unit at particular times by assessing the conflicts based on criteria including a computational limitation and a limitation defined by time-division processing of the wireless reception of the communication services; and a reallocation mechanism configured and arranged to adjust said communications services to eliminate said assessed conflicts in said baseband processing by reallocating otherwise overlapping jobs; and wherein, the baseband unit is configured and arranged to provide less than peak computational capabilities that would otherwise be necessary to cope with said conflicts in said baseband processing.