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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1998
Geoffrey F. Burns, Macungie, PA (US);
Ravi K. Kolagotla, Lansdale, PA (US);
Agere Systems Guardian Corp., Miami Lakes, FL (US);
Abstract
A shared correlator system and method for a code division, multiple access (CDMA) receiver employs pipeline processing and information tags for sharing vector generation and correlation operations between processing units. A signal input to the CDMA receiver is provided as, for example, In-phase channel (I) and quadrature-phase channel (Q) sample vectors I and Q . Sample vectors I and Q are applied to the shared correlator of the CDMA receiver. Processing units request correlation operations by the shared correlator in which matched filter pseudo-noise (PN) vectors are correlated with the I and Q sample vectors I and Q . The shared correlator schedules correlation operations requested by processing units, generates matched-filter, PN vectors with associated identification tags for the correlation operations, and provides correlation results for the correlation operations. The shared correlator renders a shared task correlation system, and includes pipeline processing and identification tags to increase correlation bandwidth and facilitate result distribution to shared tasks.