Patent ID: 8526345

Claim:
A wireless device comprising: host processing circuitry; baseband processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the host processing circuitry; an up conversion module coupled to the baseband processing circuitry; and a Radio Frequency (RF) front-end coupled to the up conversion module, wherein, in an RF beamforming transmit mode: the baseband processing module is operable to convert outbound data into an outbound symbol stream; the up conversion module is operable to convert the outbound symbol stream into an up-converted signal; and the RF front-end is operable to adjust the up-converted signal to produce multiple adjusted up-converted signals, to amplify the multiple adjusted up-converted signals to produce multiple outbound RF signals, and to transmit the multiple outbound RF signals as a beamformed RF signal; and wherein, in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmit mode: the baseband processing module is operable to convert outbound data into a plurality of outbound symbol streams; the up conversion module is operable to convert the plurality of outbound symbol streams into a plurality of up-converted signals; the RF front-end operable to amplify the plurality of up-converted signals to produce a plurality of outbound RF signals and to transmit the plurality of outbound RF signals as a MIMO RF signal.