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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2000
Gilbert C. Sih, San Diego, CA (US);
Avneesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Roh, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian K. Butler, La Jolla, CA (US);
Raghu Challa, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for frequency tracking is described. The present invention provides a tracking mechanism for removing the effects of error due to frequency offset as well as compensation for frequency error due to doppler in a plurality of multipath signals. Each finger of a RAKE receiver utilizing the present invention will compute a frequency error for that finger. The weighted average of all of these frequency errors is calculated and filtered to provide a control signal for varying the frequency of IF and RF frequency synthesizers, accounting for the common frequency offset seen at each finger. Additionally, each finger is equipped with a rotator for providing frequency adjustment specific to that finger. The frequency of each finger is adjusted through feedback of the frequency error for that finger.