Patent ID: 8306163

Claim:
A receiver, comprising: a low noise amplifier configured to amplify a signal received from an antenna; a mixer coupling between the low noise amplifier and a plurality of processing stages, each processing stage including at least an amplifier and a filter; at least a first processing stage and a second processing stage of the plurality of processing stages, each of at least the first processing stage and the second processing stage including a controllable parameter; a switch configured to switchably couple the processing stages to a detector module; the detector module having a variable gain configured to adjust the variable gain according to a control signal received from a controller module and switchably detect an output parameter of each of the first processing stage and the second processing stage from the switch, the detector module being coupled between the switch and the controller module; and the controller module configured to control the controllable parameters of at least the first processing stage and the second processing stage based on the detected output parameters of at least the first processing stage and the second processing stage.