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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
May. 30, 2001
Richard Chi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ranganathan Krishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Avneesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Jittra Jootar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A received symbol stream is oversampled and correlated with a known sync word to determine the correlation properties of the oversampled signal with a known sync word. A linear filter, such as a moving average window filter, is convolved with the correlation signal to generate a convolution signal. Once the convolution signal has reached a predetermined threshold, it is scanned over a predetermined window of oversamples. If the convolution signal exceeds the threshold for the window of oversamples, the sync word has been found and the symbol stream is down-sampled at intervals that depend on the data rate of the symbol stream. This down-sampling process may be done by picking the center oversample corresponding to each information symbol given the timing alignment, or by doing a majority vote over a multiple number of samples centered around the center oversample.