1. In data processing apparatus wherein information in processing is arranged with the data having an address portion and a to be stored portion,
the improvement comprising:
said processing including a selective capability of directing information in said address portion in a separate processing path without disturbing information in said to be stored portion.
2. The improvement of claim 1 wherein said processing includes:
a separate path in said apparatus for said information address portion, said separate path passing around addressable storage locations for said to be stored information portion, and,
implementation means adapted to direct said information address portion to said separate path.
3. The improvement of claim 2 further including in said processing, a further processing capability
said further processing capability being responsive to data arriving at said addressable storage locations through said separate path.
4. The improvement of claim 3 wherein said separate path for said information address portion includes
address includes address register means for correlation with memory locations in a memory assembly through a serializer with an output buffer, and, said further processing capability including timing register through serializer and output buffer means.
5. The improvement of claim 2 wherein said implementation means operates to disable entry of said to be stored information portion into said memory assembly.
6. In a data processing memory assembly of the type having an input port, an output port, and containing information stored in a plurality of addressable storage locations,
said memory assembly being responsive in processing to data having an address information portion and a to be stored portion,
the improvement comprising
said processing including a selective capability of directing said address information portion of said data appearing in a data path to said plurality of addressable storage locations in a separate processing path without disturbing said information stored in said plurality of addressable storage locations.
7. In a data processing memory assembly of the type having an input port, an output port, and containing information stored in a plurality of addressable storage locations,
said memory assembly being responsive in processing to data having an address information portion and a to be stored portion,
the improvement comprising
said processing including a selective capability of directing said address information portion of said data appearing in a data path to said plurality of addressable storage locations in a separate processing path without disturbing said information stored in said plurality of addressable storage locations.
8. The improvement of claim 7 wherein said selective capability includes
a separate address information path around said addressable storage locations to said output port, and,
a processing instruction implementing the directing of said address information portion of said data to said separate path.
9. The improvement of claim 8 including a data processing capability responsive to data through said separate path delivered to said output port.
10. The improvement of claim 9 wherein said separate address information path is from an address register in said memory assembly through a serializer to an output buffer in said memory assembly, and said processing instruction is from a timing register through a serializer to said output buffer in said memory assembly.
11. The improvement of claim 8 wherein said processing instruction disables entry of to be stored information into said plurality of addressable storage locations.
12. The improvement of claim 8 wherein said processing instruction employs an unused in a standard storage event condition on a terminal in combination with a burst stop command in said memory assembly.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An arrangement for reducing transmitting end losses in a radio apparatus which comprises a receiver and at least one transmitter which, when the apparatus is being used, are occasionally simultaneously in signal transfer state, the arrangement comprising a radio-frequency power amplifier, a transmitting end filter and an antenna, wherein the transmitting end filter comprises at least two antenna filters wholly separated from said receiver, the stop-band attenuation of one of the antenna filters in the operating band of the receiver differing substantially from that of another antenna filter in the operating band of the receiver, and the arrangement further comprises switches to form the transmitting end filter of said antenna filters.
2. An arrangement according to claim 1, said switches being MEMS switches.
3. An arrangement according to claim 1, said switches being arranged to form the transmitting end filter using that one of first and second antenna filters which has a lower stop-band attenuation, when the receiver is in passive state.
4. An arrangement according to claim 1, said switches being arranged to include in the transmitting-end filter that one of first and second antenna filters which has a higher stop-band attenuation only when the receiver is in receive state.
5. An arrangement according to claim 3, the antenna filter of said antenna filters which has a lower stop-band attenuation being a low-pass-type filter and the one with a higher stop-band attenuation being a band-pass filter.
6. An arrangement according to claim 5, said transmitting end filter being the band-pass filter when the receiver is in receive state.
7. An arrangement according to claim 5, said transmitting end filter being a series connection of the low-pass-type filter and the band-pass filter when the receiver is in receive state.
8. An arrangement according to claim 1, at the transmitting end of the radio apparatus being in addition to the first and second antenna filters at least one bandpass filter, any one of which filters can be connected as the transmitting end filter by means of said switches.
9. An arrangement according to claim 1, said transmitter being one that operates at a frequency above 1.7 GHz and the receiver is a GPS receiver.
10. An arrangement according to claim 1, said transmitter and said receiver being a transmitter and a receiver in one and the same radio system.
11. An arrangement according to claim 1, said radio apparatus being arranged to operate in a first system and in a second system, which both use a same frequency band non-simultaneously, and the power amplifier is common to the transmitters conform to the both systems and the receiver is a receiver conform to the first system, the antenna end of which receiver is shared with the receiver conform to the second system.
12. An arrangement according to claim 11, the first system being WCDMA and the second system being GSM.
13. A method for reducing transmitting end losses in a radio apparatus having a receiver and at least one transmitter which, when the apparatus is being used, are occasionally simultaneously in signal transfer state, a radio-frequency power amplifier, a transmitting end filter comprising at least two antenna filters wholly separate from said receiver, and an antenna, the stop-band attenuation of one of the antenna filters in the operating band of the receiver differing substantially from that of another antenna filter in the operating band of the receiver, the method comprising:
that one of the antenna filters which has the lowest stop-band attenuation is switched as the transmitting end filter when the receiver is in passive state,
that one of the antenna filters which has a higher stop-band attenuation is switched as at least part of the transmitting end filter when the receiver is in receive state, and
the power of the power amplifier is adjusted after each change of transmitting end filter to keep the transmitting power within allowed limits.
14. A mobile station comprising a receiver and at least one transmitter which, when the apparatus is being used, are occasionally simultaneously in signal transfer state, a radio frequency power amplifier, a transmitting end filter, and an antenna, wherein the transmitting end filter comprises at least two antenna filters wholly separated from said receiver, the stop-band attenuation of one of the antenna filters in the operating band of the receiver differing substantially from that of another antenna filter in the operating band of the receiver, the mobile station further comprising at the transmitting end MEMS switches arranged to switch that one of said antenna filters which has the lowest stop-band attenuation as the transmitting end filter when the receiver is in passive state, and to switch that one of said antenna filters which has the higher stop-band attenuation as at least part of the transmitting end filter when the receiver is in receive state.