METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR FINE TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION IN THE ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING BASEBAND RECEIVER FOR IEEE 802.11A/G WIRELESS LAN STANDARD

A method for fine timing synchronization is provided. The method comprises: detecting an end point of the short preamble; delivering the samples after the end point to a matched filter to generate a plurality of correlation peaks; searching the correlation peaks generated from the samples of the first LTS for a first maximal peak point which is the correlation peak with a first maximal intensity, and obtaining the first time index of the first maximal peak point; searching the correlation peaks generated from the samples of the first LTS for a pre-peak point which is the correlation peak forming a peak intensity appearing before and nearest to the first maximal peak point, and obtaining the second time index of the pre-peak point; estimating a third time index of the start point of the second LTS according to the first and second time indexes.