Patent ID: 7574186

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an integrated circuit that is arranged to provide transmission, receipt, and storage of data, wherein the data is transmitted and received across a radio frequency band; a transmitting side of the integrated circuit that is arranged to process the data for transmission; wherein the transmitting side comprises: a voltage controlled oscillator that changes frequency directly from symbols being transmitted; an FEC encoder arranged to encode bits to be transmitted with Forward Error Correction encoding; a spreader configured to spread the encoded bits by a maximal length pseudo-random code while still providing a narrow bandwidth and after the signal is spread boosting power of a transmission signal using an amplifier; a receiving side of the integrated circuit that is arranged to process the data when received; wherein the receiving side comprises: an RX amplifier arranged to receive an incoming signal and pass the signal to a mixer which is arranged to mix the signal down to a lower frequency that is then passed to a first low pass filter that removes noise from the signal; from the first low pass filter the signal is then provided through two paths where a high pass filter lets through high level symbols and a second low pass filter lets through low level symbols included in the received signal; wherein the first low pass filter and the second low pass filter generate split signals that are then provided to level or amplitude detectors that detect an amplitude of the incoming symbols; two low pass filters are then used to set the noise limit for incoming signals; an RX symbol decision module takes the information passed from the two low pass filters and determines whether a symbol corresponds to a high level or a low level; an output of the RX symbol decision module is provided to the RX despreader that correlates the high and low bits of the spread received signal to highs and lows of the processed signal; an output of the RX despreader is provided to an FEC decoder for correlation with the FEC encoder on the transmission side; an antenna that is included within the packaged integrated circuit, wherein the antenna is manufactured at the time the integrated circuit is manufactured; a power source that is mounted adjacent to the integrated circuit; and a integrated circuit package that includes the integrated circuit and the power source.