Patent 7693236 was granted and assigned to Texas Instruments on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An RF receiver apparatus (31) is provided physically separately from a cooperating baseband processor apparatus (32). The RF receiver includes a mixer circuit (33) and an analog IF-to-digital baseband converter (34) formed on an integrated circuit. Sampling frequencies of the analog IF-to-digital baseband converter are controlled by the RF receiver apparatus.