Patent ID: 8190101

Claim:
A configurable transceiver comprising: an RF receiver that generates a stream of inbound data from at least one received RF signal, wherein the RF receiver is configurable in response to a control signal; an RF transmitter that generates at least one RF signal from a stream of outbound data, wherein the RF transmitter section is configurable in response to the control signal; a configuration controller, coupled to the RF receiver and the RF transmitter that generates the control signal based on channel data wherein the RF receiver and the RF transmitter are configurable in response to the control signal to a selected one of a plurality of modulation modes; and a power management unit, coupled to the RF receiver, the RF transmitter and the configuration controller, that generates at least one receiver supply signal and at least one transmitter supply signal in accordance with a plurality of power consumption parameters, wherein the power management unit adjusts at least one of the plurality of power consumption parameters based on the control signal, and based on the selected one of the plurality of modulation modes.