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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2000
Osamu Ohnishi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Electronics Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus for detecting a correlation of samples with a spread code comprising: an L-chip accumulator which inputs the samples to generate and output an intermediate correlation signal of a bit width of W, wherein W is an integer larger than one; memories as many as M− each of which has a data width of 2W bits and addresses as many as L×N/2 and stores samples of the intermediate correlation signal as many as L×N while combining two samples as one pair; an adder which has input terminals as many as M and inputs from one of the input terminals the intermediate correlation signal which is outputted from the L-chip accumulator and from the other of the input terminals the intermediate correlation signal which is outputted from a corresponding memory among the memories; and a controller which supplies the intermediate correlation signal outputted from the L-chip accumulator to the memories as many as M−1 in rotation with a unit of L×N samples, and reads, and supplies to each of the other of the input terminals of the adder, the intermediate correlation signal which has been stored in each of the memories M−1 times; wherein an output of the adder is outputted as an correlation signal outputted from the apparatus.