Method and WCDMA receiver for high-rate and low-rate physical channel reception
US7010016B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 2001 |
| Grant date | Mar 7, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 4, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04B2201/70703
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A spread-spectrum receiver has a high-rate path to receive multi-rate channels and a low-rate path to receive fixed-rate channels. In a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) embodiment, the high-rate path despreads multi-rate physical channels having a variable spreading factor and the low-rate path despreads physical channels having a fixed spreading factor. The high-rate path may have high-rate rake fingers to despread multipath components of the multi-rate channels. Each multi-rate channel may have a different spreading code allowing for multicode reception. The high-rate path may also include a high-rate rake with finger engines implemented in hardware to multiply symbols with a channel estimation, and a combiner to combine the multipath components. The low-rate path may include low-rate fingers to despread multipath components of the fixed-rate channels and a processor to generate a channel estimation and coherently combine symbols from the low-rate fingers with the channel estimation.
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