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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2001
Subramanya P. Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Sivarama Venkatesan, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Gwang-Hyun Gho, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Avneesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Daisuke Terasawa, San Diego, CA (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for searching in asynchronous systems are disclosed. In one aspect, a plurality of codes, such as SSCs, are correlated with a received signal at a plurality of offsets to produce a code/slot energy corresponding to each code/slot boundary pair. Unique subsets of the code/slot energies are summed to produce code sequence energies, the maximum of which indicates a located code sequence and slot boundary. In another aspect, the correlation is performed by sub-correlating the received signal with a common sequence, and performing a Fast Hadamard Transform (FHT) on the results. In yet another aspect, one sub-correlator can be used to search a plurality of peaks simultaneously. Various other aspects of the invention are also presented. These aspects collectively have the benefit of circuit area and search-time efficiency which translate into reduced costs, increased standby time, increased acquisition speed, higher quality signal transmission, increased data throughput, decreased power, and improved overall system capacity.