PROCESSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR MULTI MODE WIRELESS DEVICE

摘要

A multi mode wireless device (50) can communicate with cellular and non- cellular networks. The device (50) has first and second processors (80,90) in communication with each other. In one arrangement, the first processor (80,81) provides control processing for physical layer 1 processing for both the cellular and the non-cellular radio communications in parallel, and the second processor (90,91) provides processing for data link layer 2 for both the cellular and the non-cellular radio communications in parallel, and the device (50) can communicate with the cellular and non-cellular networks simultaneously. In another arrangement, the first processor (80,82) provides control processing for physical layer 1 processing for both the cellular and the non-cellular radio communications in parallel, and the second processor (90,92) provides processing for data link layer 2 and all layers above layer 2 in the device (50) for both the cellular and the non-cellular radio communications in parallel.