Patent ID: 8180384

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a transmit control command from a base station, wherein the transmit control command includes one of an advance transmission instruction and a delay transmission instruction; receiving, at a logical NOR gate, a compression mode interrupt signal and a transmit activation signal; outputting, from the logical NOR gate, a reset signal; incrementing a transmit counter based on a count of the transmit counter and the transmit control command, wherein the transmit counter is reset a clock cycle early in response to receipt of the advance transmission instruction, wherein the transmit counter is held in reset for a clock cycle in response to receipt of the delay transmission instruction, and wherein a pulse is provided from a transmit counter output upon resetting; generating a transmit synchronization signal based on outputted pulses from the transmit counter logically anded with a transmit activation signal, wherein the transmit synchronization signal includes a transmit time period; slicing baseband transmit data into a plurality of data slices for transmission; gating each of the plurality of data slices provided to an RF modulator for transmission based on the transmit synchronization signal, wherein one of the plurality of data slices is provided to the RF modulator per the transmit time period; and generating an RF transmit signal with the RF modulator based on each of the plurality of data slices, such that transmission of each of the data slices is synchronized to the base station.