Idle mode power consumption reduction in wireless communications
First Claim
1. A wireless communication device comprising:
- a memory;
an analog front end (AFE) configured to generate a first demodulated signal based on a first paging broadcast from a first servicing cell for storage in the memory and a second demodulated signal based on a second paging broadcast from a second servicing cell for storage in the memory;
a processor that includes;
a hardware accelerator processor configured to generate a first soft symbol group based on the first demodulated signal for storage in the memory and a second soft symbol group based on the second demodulated signal for storage in the memory; and
a host processor configured to generate and output a first system frame number (SFN) for the first servicing cell based on the first soft symbol group and a second SFN for the second servicing cell based on the second soft symbol group; and
a controller configured to;
turn off the AFE after the first and second demodulated signals get stored in the memory and the processor after the processor outputs the first and second SFNs; and
turn off the hardware accelerator processor after the first soft symbol group and second soft symbol group get stored in the memory and the processor after the host processor outputs the first and second SFNs.
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Abstract
Idle mode power consumption reduction in wireless communications. Within a wireless communication device that is operative to communicate with any one of a number of servicing cells, paging broadcasts from more than one of these servicing cells are received and undergo only a limited amount of processing before being stored for use in subsequent processing that may be performed later. This partitioned processing allows the turning off of certain components that are not needed and/or no longer needed for determining the system frame numbers associated with various servicing cells to effectuate timing synchronization. Certain modules within such a wireless communication device may perform processing using the full capabilities of the wireless communication device to generate initially processed signal, and then after such signals are stored, then only partial processing capability of the wireless communication device may be employed, even though perhaps being slower, to complete the processing.
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1. A wireless communication device comprising:
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a memory; an analog front end (AFE) configured to generate a first demodulated signal based on a first paging broadcast from a first servicing cell for storage in the memory and a second demodulated signal based on a second paging broadcast from a second servicing cell for storage in the memory; a processor that includes; a hardware accelerator processor configured to generate a first soft symbol group based on the first demodulated signal for storage in the memory and a second soft symbol group based on the second demodulated signal for storage in the memory; and a host processor configured to generate and output a first system frame number (SFN) for the first servicing cell based on the first soft symbol group and a second SFN for the second servicing cell based on the second soft symbol group; and a controller configured to; turn off the AFE after the first and second demodulated signals get stored in the memory and the processor after the processor outputs the first and second SFNs; and turn off the hardware accelerator processor after the first soft symbol group and second soft symbol group get stored in the memory and the processor after the host processor outputs the first and second SFNs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A wireless communication device comprising:
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a memory; an analog front end (AFE) configured to generate a first demodulated signal based on a first paging broadcast from a first servicing cell for storage in the memory and a second demodulated signal based on a second paging broadcast from a second servicing cell for storage in the memory, wherein at least one of the first servicing cell or the second servicing cell is a wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) cell; a processor configured to process the first and second demodulated signals based on at least one of descrambling, dispreading, pilot filtering, rake combining, metric generation, de-interleaving, Viterbi decoding, parallel processing, or serial processing, wherein the processor includes; a hardware accelerator processor configured to generate a first soft symbol group based on the first demodulated signal for storage in the memory and a second soft symbol group based on the second demodulated signal for storage in the memory; and a host processor configured to generate and output a first system frame number (SFN) for the first servicing cell based on the first soft symbol group and a second SFN for the second servicing cell based on the second soft symbol group; a controller configured to; turn off the AFE after the first and second demodulated signals get stored in the memory and the processor after the processor outputs the first and second SFNs; and turn off the hardware accelerator processor after the first soft symbol group and second soft symbol group get stored in the memory and the processor after the host processor outputs the first and second SFNs. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for execution by a wireless communication device, the method comprising:
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receiving a first paging broadcast from a first servicing cell; receiving a second paging broadcast from a second servicing cell; operating an analog front end (AFE) of the wireless communication device to generate a first demodulated signal based on the first paging broadcast for storage in a memory of the wireless communication device and second demodulated signal based on the second paging broadcast for storage in the memory of the wireless communication device; turning off the AFE after the first and second demodulated signals get stored in the memory; operating a hardware accelerator processor of a processor of the wireless communication device to generate a first soft symbol group based on the first demodulated signal for storage in the memory and a second soft symbol group based on the second demodulated signal for storage in the memory; operating a host processor of the processor to generate and output a first system frame number (SFN) for the first servicing cell based on the first soft symbol group and the second SFN for the second servicing cell based on the second soft symbol group; turning off the processor after the processor outputs the first and second SFNs; and turning off the hardware accelerator processor after the first and second soft symbol groups get stored in the memory and the processor after the host processor outputs the first and second SFNs. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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