Patent ID: 7016654

Claim:
A front-end used for processing communication signals in a received path, comprising: an antenna cable segment that receives said communication signals; a RF segment that provides mixing and filtering of said received signals, said RF segment outputting a first set of signals; and an analog baseband segment that performs low pass filtering and digitizes said first set of signals in order to input a second set of signals for further processing, said analog baseband segment comprising at least one analog to digital converter core; wherein said RF segment and said analog baseband segment includes a selective set of components that are power programmable, such that the power consumption of said selective set of components is scaled commensurate with bandwidth being utilized and controlled by bias current delivered to each of said selective components; said at least one analog to digital converter core includes a reconfigurable block including one or more of said analog to digital converter cores, wherein each of said one or more analog to digital converter cores receiving an analog input signal and outputting a digitize signal, each of said one or more analog to digital converter cores also include a plurality of stages for performing analog to digital conversion; said reconfigurable block being configured to switch off and on a selective number of said stages to manage the power consumption of said one or more analog to digital converter cores.