Patent ID: 8391269

Claim:
A method for transmitting data from a medium access control device of a transmitter via a physical layer of the transmitter to an antenna of the transmitter, wherein the physical layer comprises a base band with a base band controller and a data processing pipeline comprising a plurality of functional blocks, comprising the steps of: detecting an end of a packet of payload data in a single burst timing control block of the data processing pipeline of the base band; thereupon, from the single burst timing control block of the data processing pipeline of the base band, setting a halt signal for those functional blocks preceding the single burst timing control block in the data processing pipeline of the base band; starting a timer for counting a duration of a minimum inter-frame space; inserting the minimum inter-frame space into the data by adding an inter-frame space pattern to the data; and after expiration of the timer, resetting the halt signal; wherein the base band controller sends a burst mode signal to the single burst timing control block if the system is in burst mode and wherein the single burst timing control block sends the halt signal only if it detects the burst mode signal.