Patent ID: 8666353

Claim:
An integrated circuit comprising: a plurality of receive paths, each of the plurality of receive paths comprising down-conversion circuitry operable to down-convert a Multiple Frequency Band (MFB) Radio Frequency (RF) signal comprising a plurality of information signal frequency bands by a respective shift frequency to produce a corresponding baseband/low Intermediate Frequency (BB/IF) information signal; a combiner operable to combine the plurality of BB/IF information signals produced by the plurality of receive paths to form a BB/IF MFB signal; processing circuitry configured to determine spectral characteristics of the BB/IF MFB signal; and a tunable analog to digital converter (ADC) to digitize the BB/IF MFB signal, wherein the tunable ADC is configured to set, based upon the spectral characteristics of the BB/IF MFB signal, at least one of: a sample rate of the ADC; a bandwidth of the ADC; a dynamic range of the ADC; and a signal to noise ratio of the ADC.