Patent ID: 7772934

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting a first frequency band out of a plurality of frequency bands; providing a voltage controlled oscillator to generate mixing signals for the selected first frequency band and a selected second frequency band other than the first frequency band; adjusting a frequency gain of the voltage controlled oscillator based on the selected first frequency band; selecting the selected second frequency band out of the plurality of frequency bands; and adjusting the frequency gain of the voltage controlled oscillator based on the selected second frequency band, wherein the acts of adjusting the frequency gain of the voltage controlled oscillator based on the selected first frequency band and adjusting the frequency gain of the voltage controlled oscillator based on the selected second frequency band comprises: causing a range in which the frequency gain of the voltage controlled oscillator spans for the selected first and second frequency bands to be substantially smaller than a range over which the frequency gain would span for the selected first and second frequency bands if the frequency gain was not adjusted based on the selected first and second frequency bands.