Design of Reconfigurable and Adjustable Wireless CORDIC Single Core Rake Receiver
Marianne M. Kamal · 2013
Abstract—In wireless communication system transmitted signals are subjected to multiple reflections, diffractions and attenuation caused by obstacles such as buildings and hills, etc. At the receiver end, multiple copies of the transmitted signal are received that arrive at clearly distinguishable time instants and are faded by signal cancellation. Rake receiver is a technique to combine these so called multi-paths [2] by utilizing multiple correlation receivers allocated to those delay positions on which the significant energy arrives which achieves a significant improvement in the SNR of the output signal. This paper shows how the rake, including dispreading and descrambling could be replaced by a receiver that can be implemented on a CORDIC based hardware architecture. The performance in conjunction with the computational requirements of the receiver is widely adjustable which is significantly better than that of the conventional rake receiver.