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An improved method of doppler searching in a digital GPS receiver is described. According to the principles of the present invention, an N-point fourier transform is performed on samples of a down converted GPS signal representing the entire range of Doppler-shifted GPS carrier frequencies. The magn

An improved method of doppler searching in a digital GPS receiver is described. According to the principles of the present invention, an N-point fourier transform is performed on samples of a down converted GPS signal representing the entire range of Doppler-shifted GPS carrier frequencies. The magnitude of the square of each of the output samples is calculated to produce N power quantities, corresponding to N search frequencies. The power quantities for each of the N search frequencies are then summed to produce N quantities proportional to average power. The maximum of the N-power quantities indicates the presence of the corresponding GPS signal.

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In a spread-spectrum receiver, for receiving one or more direct-sequence-coded signals, each of which may be Doppler shifted from its nominal carrier frequency, wherein for each signal a code delay/Doppler frequency search procedure must be carried out prior to activation of delay-tracking and carri

In a spread-spectrum receiver, for receiving one or more direct-sequence-coded signals, each of which may be Doppler shifted from its nominal carrier frequency, wherein for each signal a code delay/Doppler frequency search procedure must be carried out prior to activation of delay-tracking and carrier-recovery loops, an improved method of Doppler frequency search for each desired signal, and for each code delay search trial, comprising the steps of: a. inputting N consecutive digitized samples of a signal equal to a filtered product of a down-converted received signal multiplied by a locally-generated code of the desired signal, the code delay of said locally-generated code being that of the current code delay search trial, said filtering passing, at least, the band of frequencies corresponding to the entire range of possible Doppler-shifted carrier frequency of said down-converted received signal; b. calculating the N-point discrete Fourier transform of said block of N samples to produce N complex-valued transformed output samples, each corresponding to one of N equally-spaced search frequencies in the band from zero Hertz to fs (or, equivalently, in the band from -fs/2 to +fs/2), fs being the sampling frequency of the samples input in step a; c. calculating the square of the magnitude of each of said N complex-valued output samples to produce N power quantities, corresponding to the N said search frequencies; and d. performing steps a through c M times, summing the M power quantities produced for each of the N said search frequencies, to produce N quantities proportional to the average power of each respective N search frequency, the maximum of said average power quantities exhibiting indicia of the presence and approximate Doppler frequency shift of said desired signal.