Patent ID: 8396099

Claim:
A multi-carrier receiver, comprising: a first signal processing unit, having M first signal processing paths, and configured for performing a first signal processing to at least one radio frequency (RF) signal for outputting at least one sub-carrier signal, wherein the at least one RF signal is the aggregation of the at least one sub-carrier signal and is adjusted by a carrier aggregation technique dynamically, wherein the sub-carrier signals are non-contiguous and M is greater than 0; a routed switch, having M input terminals and N output terminals, wherein the M input terminals are respectively coupled to the M first signal processing paths of the first signal processing unit for receiving the at least one sub-carrier signal, the routed switch dynamically switches the at least one sub-carrier signal to independent and parallel signal processing paths, and the routed switch connects each one of the input terminals to at least one of the output terminals or none of the output terminals according to a control signal, wherein N is greater than 0; and a second signal processing unit, having N second signal processing paths respectively coupled to the N output terminals of the routed switch, for performing a second signal processing to the at least one sub-carrier signal and outputting at least one digital signal.