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A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver employs variable spacing of Doppler offset bins and code offset bins when acquiring a P(Y) code, to improve signal acquisition characteristics with respect to a search region having a plurality of Doppler offset bins and code offset bins. The receiver inclu

A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver employs variable spacing of Doppler offset bins and code offset bins when acquiring a P(Y) code, to improve signal acquisition characteristics with respect to a search region having a plurality of Doppler offset bins and code offset bins. The receiver includes an acquisition module in which an input signal representative of a received P(Y) code is received and applied to a first programmable rate mixer. An output of the first programmable rate mixer is applied to a combiner, which selectively combines samples of the input signal based on a control input to dynamically determine the spacing of the code offset bins. An output of the combiner is normalized and applied to a correlation unit, which generates correlation measures of the received P(Y) code and a locally generated P(Y) code. A signal representative of the correlation measures is applied separately to each of a set of programmable rate mixers and mixed with separate mixing signals. The spacing of the Doppler offset bins is dynamically determined by controlling the rates of the mixing signals.

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1. A method of locating a received signal, the method comprising:using a search region of signal characteristics, the search region defined in terms of a plurality of bins; varying a spacing of the bins; and determining a signal characteristic associated with the received signal by locating the sign

1. A method of locating a received signal, the method comprising:using a search region of signal characteristics, the search region defined in terms of a plurality of bins; varying a spacing of the bins; and determining a signal characteristic associated with the received signal by locating the signal in one of the bins.