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Despreading circuit

US6636557B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 7, 2001
Grant dateOct 21, 2003
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Expiry dateNov 2, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B2201/70709
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A despreading circuit which can reduce a circuit scale and power consumption is described. The circuit includes an A/D converter which converts a CDMA modulated analog signal to a digital signal of N bits, and a searcher which defects a synchronization phase from high-order small bits of the N bits and outputs synchronozation phase information to a control circuit. The control circuit transmits a signal for allowing despreading to be performed to a sliding correlator based on the phase information. The sliding correlator despreads the N bit digital signal outputted by the A/D converter and outputs the resulting correlation output as a despreading signal.

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