摘要 |
<p>A novel and improved method of acquisition in a spread spectrum communication system is presented. In the present invention, a large window of PN chip offset hypotheses are searched which are generated by a PN sequence generator (20) under the control of a searcher controller (18). The energy of the despread sequence which is despread by a despreader (6) is found that might indicate the presence of the pilot signal in a threshold comparer (16) having one of the chip offsets of the large search window, then a search of a subset of offset hypotheses, or small window, is searched under the control of searcher controller (18).</p> |