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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1998
Antoine J. Rouphael, Melbourne, FL (US);
Farbod Kamgar, Campbell, CA (US);
Philips Electronics North America Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A Rake receiver having fingers is disclosed. The Rake receiver includes frequency discriminators for automatic frequency control and a combiner. Each finger includes a frequency discriminator. The combiner combines outputs from the frequency discriminators to output an average error signal which is fed back to the frequency discriminators for removing frequency offsets from all the fingers. The combiner includes an adder which adds the outputs of the frequency discriminators, and a divide circuit which divides the combined adder output by the number of the outputs which were added together to form the average error signal. The combiner further includes a filter connected between the adder and the divide circuit. In addition, further adders are provided where each of theses adders receives the average error signal and a respective one of the outputs from the frequency discriminators in order to provide an estimate of one of the frequency offsets.