Patent ID: 8005444

Claim:
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises: a first die including: a processing module coupled to generate outbound data from an outbound signal in accordance with at least one upper layer of a wireless communication protocol and to convert inbound data into an inbound signal in accordance with the at least one upper layer of the wireless communication protocol; a baseband processing module coupled to convert the outbound data into an outbound symbol stream in accordance with at least one lower layer of the wireless communication protocol and to convert an inbound symbol stream into the inbound data in accordance with the at least one lower layer of the wireless communication protocol; and a radio frequency (RF) section coupled to convert the outbound symbol stream into an outbound RF signal and to convert an inbound RF signal into the inbound symbol stream; a second die including memory to store operational instructions corresponding to the wireless communication protocol; a packaging substrate supporting the first and second dies, wherein the first and second dies are stacked with respect to the packaging substrate; and coupling circuit to couple the first die to the second die.