Patent ID: 8761710

Claim:
A portable computing device comprises: a front end module (FEM) operably coupled to an antenna section and operable to isolate one or more outbound radio frequency (RF) signals from one or more inbound RF signals; a surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less receiver operable to: produce one or more inbound intermediate frequency (IF) signals from the one or more inbound RF signals, the producing the one or more inbound IF signals including: frequency translating a baseband filter response to either of an IF filter response or an RF filter response, wherein the frequency translating of the baseband filter response configured to sufficiently filter far-out blockers with negligible effect on a desired signal component of the one or more inbound RF signals; filtering the one or more inbound RF signals in accordance with the RF filter response when the baseband filter response is frequency translated to the RF filter response; and filtering the one or more inbound IF signals in accordance with the IF filter response when the baseband filter response is frequency translated to the IF filter response; and convert the one or more inbound IF signals into one or more inbound symbol streams; a SAW-less transmitter operable to convert one or more outbound symbol streams into the one or more outbound RF signals; and a baseband processing unit operable to: convert outbound data into the one or more outbound symbol streams; and convert the one or more inbound symbol streams into inbound data.