WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF TIMING SYNCHRONISATION

摘要

A wireless communication device comprises a first sub-system arranged to pass data to a second sub-system comprising timing synchronisation logic operably coupled to a counter, such that data is sampled by the timing synchronisation logic when passed to the second sub-system from the first sub-system wherein the wireless communication device is characterised in that the timing synchronisation logic is arranged to determine a position of a first data frame and in response thereto initiate a counting process of the counter and determine a position of a second data frame and in response thereto determine a count value from the counting process of the counter and in response to the count value determine whether to initiate a timing advance or timing retard operation on the data being passed to the second sub-system. In this manner, the inventive concept provides the wireless communication device with a mechanism to achieve timing synchronisation. In particular, the inventive concept may allow a radio frequency integrated circuit to implement timing synchronisation by advancing or retarding an 'actual' signal sent from digital baseband circuits in a 3G DigRF wireless communication device.