A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD

摘要

A wireless communication device (200), including: a housing (210); a controller (220), the controller (220) configured to control the operations of the wireless communication device; memory (270) coupled to the controller (220); a transceiver (250) coupled to the controller (220), the transceiver (250) configured to send and receive wireless signals; the receive signal includes at least a control channel and a packet data channel, the control channel being configured to provide the modulation and encoding and/or decoding information necessary to process a subsequent packet of data received by the transceiver (250) or in preparation for transmission by the transceiver (250); a monitoring module (290) for monitoring the control channel and controlling a dynamic scaling module (295), the monitoring module (290) reads a parameter field from the control channel which is used to determine that the data message has certain processing needs meeting a certain threshold; the dynamic scaling module (295) is configured to provide energy savings by varying the voltage and frequency of a controller, substantially real-time, according to processing needs, including: (i) a performance mode when the certain threshold is met; and (ii) a default mode when the certain threshold is not met.