Patent 10248612 was granted and assigned to Skyworks Solutions, Inc. on April, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A simplified serial interface for a communications device. The serial interface includes an RF front end and a transmit block and at least one receive block located on different dies. The receive block is activated by a clock generator that is separate than the system clock. The at least one receive block can inhibit transmission of an enable signal to the receive block and inhibit operation of an oscillator of the interface.