Communication device with variable frame processing time

摘要

A TDMA signal of frames of a nominal duration and having time slots is demodulated (120, 150, 160). A time slot assignment circuit (170) assigns and re-assigns time slots in a present and next frame based on TDMA control information. A real-time timing control circuit (180) determines a recovered-data duration for production of recovered data by a data decoder (190). The data decoder (190) produces the recovered-data during the receive-data duration by time compression or expansion during the next frame when a different time slot is re-assigned by the time slot re-assignment circuit (170).