Patent ID: 7756489
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A radio communication apparatus comprising: a radio modem for converting a reception signal having a radio frequency band to a base band signal; a signal processor for processing the base band signal of the reception signal, the signal processor including a plurality of reconfigurable reception signal processing blocks arranged in a sequential order; and a processing unit for processing a protocol, wherein each of said reception signal processing blocks is supplied with reception signal data included in the reception signal and one or more control signal bits of a plurality of control signal bits, each control signal bit being exclusively assigned for transmitting a respective control signal of a plurality of control signals required by said reception signal processing blocks, each of the one or more control signal bits supplied to each reception signal processing block being transmitted from either the radio modem or another reception signal processing block that precedes the reception signal processing block to which the control signal bit is supplied in the sequential order, wherein each of said reception signal processing blocks includes a signal processing block core for processing the reception signal data included in the reception signal by using a corresponding necessary set of the one or more control signal bits supplied to the signal processing block, and wherein each of said reception signal processing blocks transmits any control signal bits of the one or more control signal bits supplied to the reception signal processing block and not included in the corresponding necessary set used in the signal processing block core to either the processing unit or another reception signal processing block that follows the reception signal processing block in the sequential order.