Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Mobile Phone Basics

RF section

This is the Radio frequency transmit and receive section. This section converts all RF signals for baseband and from baseband to RF section. Rx = Receive; Tx = Transmit.

Ananlog Baseband/Voiceband CODEC

This is the Coder/Decoder section. It digitalizes signals for the DSP and analogizes signals for RF.

Power managemant / DC-DC

This section regulates and supplies all other sections of the mobile pohne. DC means Direct current.

DSP/Microprocessor

This is the main processing unit of the Mobile Phone. ARM based processors are the most commonly used ones. DSP mean Digital Signal Processor.

Flash / ROM, SRAM

This is a type of Permanent Memory to store Operating System and phones/users specific data.