SEARCHER ARCHITECTURE FOR CDMA SYSTEMS

Searcher architecture for use in a CDMA radio system for determining transmission delay in order to synchronize a receiver's binary code generators with those used to modulate a received, modulated signal comprises a combining means for combining samples of the received signal, buffer means for storing sequences of the combined samples, and correlators for correlating, at high clock speed, multiple sequences of the receiver's binary code generators with the stored sequences of samples in order to find correlation with a particular one of the multiple sequences of the receiver's binary code generators and thus determine the transmission delay.