Patent ID: 8073982

Claim:
A method for setting an operating parameter in a peripheral IC, the method comprising: transmitting the operating parameter from a central IC using synchronous data transmission via a bus connection to an IC, the bus connection being a serial bus connection having a data line, a control line, and a clock line, wherein a data transmission clock signal is derived from a system clock signal available to the central IC; buffering the operating parameter in a preregister of the peripheral IC in which said operating parameter does not have an effect on a working process of the peripheral IC, a current operating parameter being stored in a working register of the peripheral IC, said working process working with the current operating parameter stored in said working register; wherein the peripheral IC relates to a front-end IC for a communication arrangement for wireless data transmission and the central IC relates to a signal processing device, with means for one of modulation and demodulation of a mixed RF input signal and for further signal processing in baseband; wherein the operating parameter relates to a gain setting for a receive gain in the front-end IC; sending a start pulse signaling a start of a data transmission from the central IC to the peripheral IC via the control line; and sending a transfer pulse from the central IC to the peripheral IC via the control line, the transfer pulse triggering transferring of the buffered operating parameter to the working register, wherein the buffered operating parameter becomes active in said working process of the peripheral IC once written into said working register; wherein the start pulse is transmitted on the control line with a rising edge of the system clock signal during an active high state of the data transmission clock signal present on the clock line and wherein the transfer pulse is transmitted on the control line with a rising edge of the system clock signal when the data transmission clock signal is absent on the clock line.