Wireless circuitry with scalable accuracy
Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing scalable power in a wireless device. Multiple radio access technology architectures running different operating clock frequencies are supported by providing a scaled static clock frequency and dynamic clock frequencies by dynamically switching parallel paths of processing resources.
1. A method of adjusting clock frequency in a transmitting or receiving wireless device comprising:
determining a particular accuracy of transmitting or receiving by the wireless device;
allocating one or more parallel resources to adjust for the particular accuracy; and
switching to one or more parallel paths in the wireless device to respectively connect the one or more parallel resources to change the clock frequency to a particular clock frequency for processing data signals of a radio access technology based on the particular accuracy, wherein the clock frequency increases with a number of parallel paths connected in response to the switching.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting clock frequency is based on a static clock.
3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising: determining a lower bandwidth of operation for the wireless device to generate a lower
static frequency for the static clock, and determining a higher bandwidth operation for the wireless device to generate a higher static frequency for the static clock.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting clock frequency is based on a dynamic clock.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the allocating one or more parallel resources is based on a received data signal.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the particular accuracy, is based on one or more of the following:
bandwidth of a received data signal;
end and beginning of bandwidth of the data signal;
gap between several bandwidth allocations needed by the data signal;
output power of the wireless device;
band used to transmit from the wireless device; and
data signal values.
7. A wireless modem device comprising:
an interface configured to receive a data signal from a radio access technology supported by the wireless modem device;
a scaled static clock configured to support the radio access technology; and a plurality of parallel paths of the wireless modem device for processing resources that are dynamically switched on or off to generate a particular clock frequency supporting the radio access technology, wherein the generated particular clock frequency increases with a number of parallel paths switched on.
8. The wireless modem device of claim 7 , wherein the data signal determines an accuracy.
9. The wireless modem device of claim 8 , wherein the accuracy is related to the particular clock frequency provided by the parallel paths that are dynamically switched on or off.
10. The wireless modem device of claim 7 , wherein the scaled static clock is configured from a lower bandwidth operation at a lower static frequency and higher bandwidth operation at a higher static frequency.
11. The wireless modem device of claim 7 , wherein accuracy is related to number of physical resource blocks that are allocated to support communication for the radio access technology.
12. The wireless modem device of claim 7 , wherein accuracy is related to one or more of the following:
bandwidth of the data end and beginning of resource block;
output of the wireless modem device;
band used to transmit;
gap between resource block allocations and data signal values.
13. The wireless modem device of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of parallel paths for processing resources are configured to perform digital operations on the received data signal.
14. A wireless device comprising: one or more processors;
memory coupled to the processors, wherein the memory comprises one or more lookup tables;
a modem coupled to the processors and memory, wherein the memory comprises a scaled static clock and parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off to provide particular operating frequencies to support multiple radio access technologies located on the wireless device, wherein a provided particular operating frequency increases with a number of parallel paths switched on.
15. The wireless device of claim 14 , wherein the lookup tables determine which radio access technologies, band requirements, operating frequencies and which parallel paths of resources to switch on.
16. The wireless device of claim 15 , wherein band requirements include lower frequency and upper frequency of received data signals.
17. The wireless device of claim 14 , wherein the lookup tables relate an accuracy with one or more of the following:
bandwidth of a data signal;
end and beginning of bandwidth of the data signal;
gap between several bandwidth allocations needed by the data signal;
output power of the wireless device;
band frequency used to transmit; and
data signal values.
18. The wireless device of claim 14 , wherein the parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off to provide particular operating frequencies are related to a dynamic clock.
19. The wireless device of claim 14 , wherein the parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off are related to received data signals.
20. The wireless device of claim 14 , wherein received data signals determine quantization steps and the parallel paths of resources that are dynamically switched on and off are related to the quantization steps.