Patent ID: 7634241

Claim:
An integrated circuit radio transceiver, comprising: a baseband processor for processing ingoing and outgoing digital communication signals; first and second front end cores each further comprising a transmitter front end for processing and transmitting outgoing RF signals based upon the outgoing digital communication signals and a receiver front end for receiving ingoing RF signals and for processing the ingoing RF signals to produce the ingoing digital communication signals; the receiver front end of each of the first and second front end cores further including: an in-phase receive processing block; a quadrature phase receive processing block; wherein the in-phase and quadrature phase receive processing blocks define an ingoing signal path and each further include: a plurality of filtering and amplification blocks disposed within the corresponding ingoing signal path; a plurality of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) blocks coupled to receive an ingoing analog signal from a corresponding plurality of nodes disposed throughout the ingoing signal path, each of the plurality of received signal strength indicator blocks producing a signal strength indication; and a multiplexed n-bit wide gain control bus operably coupled to the plurality of filtering and amplification blocks to provide a gain control signal to the plurality of filtering and amplification blocks within each of the first and second front end cores.