Patent 7689174 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module, a GPS receiver, an RF section, and an interface module. The GPS receiver module is coupled to recover a plurality of coarse/acquisition (C/A) signals and a plurality of navigation messages from a plurality of down converted GPS signals. The RF section is coupled to convert an inbound RF voice signal into the inbound voice symbol stream; convert the outbound voice symbol stream into an outbound RF voice signal; convert an inbound RF data signal into the inbound data symbol stream; convert the outbound data symbol stream into an outbound RF data signal; and convert a plurality of GPS RF signals into the plurality of down converted GPS signals.