Wireless integrated circuit
A technology of integrated circuits and radio waves, applied to electrical components, data exchange through path configuration, transmission systems, etc., can solve problems such as inability to save power, achieve the effect of reducing burden and improving performance
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[0070] FIG. 1 is a schematic functional block diagram showing a wireless LSI according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
[0071] The wireless LSI 20 of the first embodiment is an LSI compliant with ZigBee, which is one of the short-range wireless communication standards, and is connected to the RF unit of the antenna 21 , the demodulation unit 23 , the modulation unit 24 , and a two-sided random access memory for data storage. (Random Access Memory, hereinafter referred to as "RAM") 25, RAM 26 for working data storage, host interface section (hereinafter referred to as "host I / F section") 27, and physical layer section 30 etc. The MAC layer is executed by a program on the CPU 40 .
[0072]That is, the wireless LSI 20 is a circuit that operates based on a clock supplied from an oscillator or the like, and the RF unit 22 is provided inside the circuit. The RF unit 22 is constituted by a transmitter / receiver circuit composed of an analog circuit ba...
Embodiment 2
[0109] 6 is a functional block diagram showing a wireless LSI according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention, and the same reference numerals are assigned to the same elements as those in FIG. 1 showing Embodiment 1. FIG.
[0110] In the second embodiment, the data link layer having the MAC layer is removed from the host CPU 40A, the removed data link layer 29 having the MAC layer is installed in the wireless LSI 20A, and the security section (AES) 28 is installed in the wireless LSI 20A. The wireless LSI 20A differs from the first embodiment in this point. The other structures are the same as those of Embodiment 1.
[0111] The security unit 28 and the data link layer 29 are connected between the physical layer unit 30 and the host I / F unit 27, and the RAMs 25 and 26 are connected to these. The security unit 28 is equipped with security functions (eg, a privacy function, an authentication function, etc.) specified in IEEE802.15.4, and, for example, the application data b...
Embodiment 3
[0115] The present invention is not limited to the above-described first and second embodiments, and various modifications are possible. Examples of the third modified example include the following (a) and (b).
[0116] (a) The physical layer unit 30 of the first embodiment can be applied to various circuits that perform latching of data necessary for determining the transmission mode of received data by the physical layer and notification to the MAC. Therefore, for example, even if the host CPU 40A shown in FIG. 6 is built into the one-chip wireless LSI or the like in the wireless LSI 20A, the same effect can be obtained.
[0117] (b) Since the circuit configuration of the wireless LSIs 20 and 20A or the host CPUs 40 and 40A shown in FIGS. 1 and 6 is an example, a timer, a reset function, a clock control function, etc. may be added to these circuits 20 , 20A, 40 and 40A. of various circuits.
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