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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
David A Olaker, Melbourne, FL (US);
Greg P Segallis, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Harris Corporation, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Abstract
A correlator is disclosed and includes a data bus for receiving blocks of n bit parallel in phase (I) and n bit parallel quadrature (Q) signal data and n bit parallel I and Q reference data from respective I and Q signal channels and I and Q reference channels. The I and Q reference data are correlated with a one bit shifted version of the respective n bit parallel I and Q signal data from an adjacent previous path to produce an I component signal output and Q component signal output along each of the individual n parallel paths. An output bus receives I and Q component signal outputs from the n parallel paths one at a time at one bit input time periods such that there is one correlation product output for every I and Q parallel n bits. A cascade adder circuit comprises at least one adder connected to the output bus and receives the I and Q component signal outputs from the output bus and delayed I and Q component signal outputs from another correlator. The cascade adder circuit sums the I and Q component signal outputs with the delayed I and Q component signal outputs from another correlator to allow correlator expansion.