Patent ID: 8804049

Claim:
A wireless communication receiver, comprising: a data storage module; a deinterleaver, coupled to the data storage module, for storing a first output data into the data storage module, and retrieving a deinterleaved data corresponding to the first output data from the data storage module; and a plurality of signal processing circuits, comprising: a first signal processing circuit, coupled to the deinterleaver, for receiving a wireless communication signal, and generating the first output data by performing a first signal processing operation according to the wireless communication signal, wherein the first signal processing circuit comprises: a signal receiving circuit for receiving the wireless communication signal and accordingly generating a received signal; a channel estimation/equalization circuit for generating a channel estimation/equalization output by performing a channel estimation/equalization according to the received signal; and a channel state information generation circuit for generating a channel state information, wherein the first output data includes the channel estimation/equalization output and the channel state information; and a second signal processing circuit, coupled to the deinterleaver, for generating a second output data by performing a second signal processing operation according to the deinterleaved data; wherein the data storage module is shared by the deinterleaver and the second signal processing circuit for data storage, and the deinterleaver is further coupled to the channel estimation/equalization circuit and the channel state information generation circuit, and utilized for storing the channel estimation/equalization output and the channel state information into the data storage module, respectively, and retrieving a deinterleaved data corresponding to the channel estimation/equalization output and a deinterleaved data corresponding to the channel state information from the data storage module, respectively.