Patent ID: 7512103

Claim:
A virtual channel communications system that assigns RF resources to communications waveforms for transmitting and receiving signals said communications system comprising: a plurality of universal transceivers for generating and processing the signals said universal transceivers comprising: translators for translating baseband transmit signals to RF transmit signals and RF receive signals to baseband receive signals; digital signal processors for generating the communications waveforms and processing baseband receive and transmit signals; and an inter-transceiver communications bus connected to the translators and the digital signal processors to communicate between the plurality of universal transceiver wherein said communications bus interconnects a digital signal processor in any of said plurality of universal transceivers to a translator in any of said plurality of universal transceivers; and a plurality of universal power amplifiers connected to the plurality of universal transceivers for amplifying the RF transmit signals; wherein when one of said digital signal processors requires transmission said communications bus switches said one digital signal processor to an available PA-translator; wherein said communications bus includes a TDMA communications bus, said digital signal processors and PA-translators communicating within assigned time slots; and wherein said communications bus further includes a plurality of field programmable gate arrays programmed as shift registers interconnected in a ring, said digital signal processors loading data into and unloading data out of said shift registers and said translators loading data into and unloading data out of said shift registers.