Method and apparatus for fast acquisition and low SNR tracking in satellite positioning system receivers
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Abstract
A satellite positioning system (SATPS) receiver has a mix of standard and enhanced digital channel processors. The standard digital channel processors perform continuous tracking. During a low SNR and/or fast acquisition mode, the enhanced digital channel processor accumulates samples of a SATPS signal that are identically positioned within corresponding PRN code repetition periods, and plays back the stored accumulated values of the samples in an integration period to a correlation section for correlation with a locally generated PRN code.
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26 Claims
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1-25. -25. (canceled)
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26. An enhanced digital channel processor for a satellite positioning system (SATPS) receiver, comprising:
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means for receiving data in successive data bit periods and integrating said data in an integration period longer than said data bit periods; and
a memory processor having a storage device comprising two storage parts, wherein, during a low SNR and/or fast acquisition mode, said memory processor accumulates sums representative of samples of a down-converted SATPS signal in said integration period, stores the accumulated sums in one of said storage parts, and plays back at a substantially accelerated rate the sums stored in the other of said storage parts.
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