Architecture for a wireless local area network physical layer

摘要

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first integrated circuit and a second integrated circuit configured to be coupled to the first integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit comprises transceiver hardware configured to transmit and receive analog signals, one or more analog to digital converters coupled to the transceiver hardware, and one or more digital to analog converters coupled to the transceiver hardware. The analog to digital converters are configured to convert one or more received analog signals from the transceiver hardware to one or more received digital signals. The digital to analog converters are coupled to receive one or more transmitted digital signals, and are configured to convert the transmitted digital signals to transmitted analog signals for transmission by the transceiver hardware. The second integrated circuit comprises a baseband processor configured to process the received digital signals and to generate the transmitted digital signals.