Patent ID: 8412142

Claim:
A wireless device comprising: processing circuitry operable to determine a set of information signals for receipt, the set of information signals of a Radio Frequency (RF) Multiple Frequency Bands Multiple Standards (MFBMS) signal having a plurality of information signal frequency bands; an antenna operable to receive the RF MFBMS signal; a receiver section coupled to the antenna and to the processing circuitry and comprising: a plurality of receive paths, each receive path comprising down-conversion circuitry operable to down-convert at least a portion of the RF MFBMS signal by a respective shift frequency to produce a corresponding baseband/low Intermediate Frequency (BB/IF) information signal; a combiner operable to combine the plurality of BB/IF information signals produced by the plurality of receive paths to form a BB/IF MFBMS signal; and a tunable analog to digital converter (ADC) operable to digitize the BB/IF MFBMS signal, the ADC tunable by the processing circuitry based upon spectral characteristics of the BB/IF MFBMS signal wherein the tunable ADC is coupled to receive inputs to adjust at least one of: a sample rate of the ADC; a bandwidth of the ADC; a dynamic range of the ADC; and a signal to noise ration of the ADC; and the processing circuitry operable to extract data from the BB/IF MFBMS signal corresponding to the set of information signals.