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A digital despreader and downconversion technique useful for spread spectrum communications receivers digitally tracks a timing phase of a PN sequence without the need for steering an external hardware clock. An additional benefit of the technique is the use of a receive filter matched to the bandli

A digital despreader and downconversion technique useful for spread spectrum communications receivers digitally tracks a timing phase of a PN sequence without the need for steering an external hardware clock. An additional benefit of the technique is the use of a receive filter matched to the bandlimited transmit chip sequence prior to despreading which reduces the amount of noise present after despreading. A narrowband filter also permits the use of a single A/D converter in the receiver, IF sampling at a relatively low sample rate compared to other techniques. A method for reducing a total number of computations required thereby facilitating implementation in a single custom digital integrated circuit is also described.

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An apparatus for digitally downconverting and despreading an analog direct sequence spread spectrum signal, comprising: a free-running, non-steered, clock generator which outputs an A/D sample clock; the A/D sample clock having a rate which is an integral multiple of a chip rate of the spread spectr

An apparatus for digitally downconverting and despreading an analog direct sequence spread spectrum signal, comprising: a free-running, non-steered, clock generator which outputs an A/D sample clock; the A/D sample clock having a rate which is an integral multiple of a chip rate of the spread spectrum signal; an A/D converter which receives the spread spectrum signal and the A/D sample clock and outputs a digitized signal from the spread spectrum signal; a local pseudo-noise sequence signal generator which outputs a local pseudo-noise sequence signal; and a complex downconverter/polyphase filter which receives the digitized signal and the A/D sample clock and a sample timing phase control signal, simultaneously filters and downconverts the digitized signal to baseband, corrects timing phase misalignment between the digitized signal and the locally generated pseudo-noise sequence signal, and outputs a complex corrected baseband signal.