Patent ID: 8331886

Claim:
An integrated multi-core RF device comprising: a substrate having a surface; a common amplifier disposed on said substrate, said common amplifier electrically coupled to a RF input terminal and outputting an amplified RF signal; a common transmission line electrically coupled to said common amplifier and configured to supply said amplified RF signal to a plurality of common transmission line distribution connections; and a plurality of receiver cores disposed on said substrate, each receiver core of said plurality of receiver cores having a receiver core RF input electrically coupled to one of said plurality of common transmission line distribution connections, each core configured to be tunable to a channel and to output at least one baseband output per channel; said integrated multi-core RF device configured to be controlled to provide a maximum physical distance between receiver cores that are active in real time and that have adjacent LO frequencies, and configured to concurrently receive one or more of a plurality of channels using a set of active receiver cores that is configured to concurrently down convert said each one of said plurality of channels to a corresponding down converted baseband signal, said integrated multi-core RF device configured to allow dynamic selection of said one or more of said plurality of channels over time.