Patent ID: 8031757

Claim:
A method for operating a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver that has an RF front end and a baseband processing module, the method comprising: during a first time interval: sampling a baseband signal to produce a plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the first time interval; and storing the plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the first time interval in a shared memory; during a second time interval that differs from the first time interval: processing the plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the first time interval for pilot signal search operations, the shared memory serving as pilot signal search memory during the first and second time intervals; during a third time interval that differs from both the first time interval and the second time interval: evicting the plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the first time interval from the shared memory; sampling a baseband signal of the third time interval to produce a plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the third time interval; storing the plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the third time interval in the shared memory that serves as interleaver memory during the third time interval; and processing the plurality of samples of the baseband signal of the third time interval to extract data therefrom.