Patent ID: 7493115

Claim:
A method for individually testing a radio frequency circuit of a wireless communication interface of a communicating device adapted for a pico-network protocol, the pico-network protocol based upon a stack of hardware protocol layers including a radio protocol layer, a baseband protocol layer and a link management protocol layer, the method comprising: operating on a wireless communication interface at least one radio frequency circuit, wherein an individual identification address for communication is assigned to the wireless communication interface uniquely for each radio frequency circuit, and wherein the at least one radio frequency circuit is physically integrated in a chip with circuits of the radio protocol layer of the pico-network protocol; electrically coupling to the wireless communication interface, a single physical programmable array of read only memory for recording both test data associated with an operating test phase of the radio frequency circuit and the individual identification address, without a need to reprogram the read only memory in order to complete the individual testing and calibration of the radio frequency circuit, wherein the single physical programmable array of read only memory is physically integrated in a chip with circuits of one of the baseband protocol layer and the link management protocol layer.