Patent ID: 8422964

Claim:
A radio-frequency (RF) apparatus, comprising receive circuitry, the receive circuitry comprising: a low-noise amplifier (LNA), the low-noise amplifier adapted to receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and to provide an amplified radio-frequency (RF) signal; a down-converter coupled to the low-noise amplifier (LNA), the down-converter adapted to mix the amplified radio-frequency (RF) signal with a local-oscillator signal to generate an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the down-converter, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) adapted to convert the in-phase signal to an in-phase digital signal, and to convert the quadrature signal to a quadrature digital signal; and multiplexer circuitry coupled to the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the multiplexer circuitry adapted to receive the in-phase and quadrature digital signals and to selectively output the in-phase and quadrature digital signals.