Patent ID: 7787529
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a radio frequency (RF) front end; a baseband processor coupled to the RF front end to receive demodulated incoming signals from the RF front end for digital processing and to transmit outgoing digital signals to the RF front end for RF transmission, the baseband processor utilizing a digital signal processor (DSP) that includes a speech coder/decoder (codec) to process digital speech based on a particular standard or protocol and the DSP further includes an audio player to process music; and an audio codec coupled to the baseband processor to convert digitally processed signals from the DSP for output as audio output signals, including digital speech processed by the speech decoder of the DSP and music processed by the audio player of the DSP, in which the codec is integrated on a single integrated circuit chip with the RF front end and the baseband processor.