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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2008
Timothy Fisher-jeffes, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dilip Muthukrishnan, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Thomas Keller, Great Shelford, GB;
Timothy Fisher-Jeffes, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dilip Muthukrishnan, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Thomas Keller, Great Shelford, GB;
Mediatek Inc., Science-Based Insustrial Park, Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
A rake receiver having a rake receiver finger operated in a time multiplexed manner to perform the task a plurality of fingers, each of these fingers being a virtual finger allocated to a time slot in an operation cycle of the rake receiver finger, and wherein a buffer is provided for buffering at least one received chip of data, and where a spare virtual finger is provided such that any virtual finger may request extra processing within an operation cycle of the time multiplexed rake receiver finger.