Patent ID: 8200156

Claim:
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises: a plurality of circuit modules; a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver; and a controller operably coupled to the plurality of circuit modules and to the MMW transceiver, wherein the controller is further operably coupled to: identify potential inter-chip millimeter wave (MMW) communication links within a device, each of the potential inter-chip MMW communication links enabling communication between two or more of a plurality of MMW transceivers resident on the IC and other ICs within the device; determine that at least one of the potential inter-chip MMW communication links should be a dedicated point-to-point MMW link between two of the plurality of MMW transceivers; determine requirements to establish the dedicated point-to-point MMW link; and when inter-chip MMW resources are available to support the requirements, allocate the inter-chip MMW resources to support the dedicated point-to-point MMW link.