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Methods and apparatus for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a symbol SYNC sequence are provided. The waveform is serially demodulated into a serial baseband signal and correlated in parallel with segments of the symbol SYNC seq

Methods and apparatus for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a symbol SYNC sequence are provided. The waveform is serially demodulated into a serial baseband signal and correlated in parallel with segments of the symbol SYNC sequence. Correlation strength estimates of each of the correlated output signals are computed and used to adjust a SYNC threshold level. The correlation strength estimates or the correlated output signals are combined and a peak is determined in the resulting signal. The peak in the resulting signal is compared to the SYNC threshold level to detect synchronization.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols, the method comprising the steps of: a) serially demodulating the received waveform into a serial baseband signal h

What is claimed is: 1. A method for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols, the method comprising the steps of: a) serially demodulating the received waveform into a serial baseband signal having the same predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols; b) correlating the serial baseband signal with a plurality of segments of the SYNC sequence of symbols to form a plurality of parallel correlated output signals, the plurality of segments forming the predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols; c) combining the parallel correlated output signals to form a combined correlation signal; d) detecting SYNC using the combined correlation signal; e) determining a peak of the combined correlation signal; f) computing correlation strength estimates of each of the parallel correlated output signals; g) adjusting a SYNC threshold level based upon the correlation strength estimates; and h) comparing the peak of step (e) with the SYNC threshold level of step (g) to detect SYNC. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform includes one of minimum shift keying (MSK), Gaussian MSK, serial quasi-bandlimited-MSK (SQBL-MSK), binary phase shift keying (BPSK), filtered BPSK, offset quadrature PSK (OQPSK), intersymbol jitter free OQPSK (IJF-OQPSK), raised cosine filtered OQPSK (RC-OQPSK), continuous phase modulation (CPM), or tamed frequency modulation (TFM). 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the received waveform has a symbol rate and step (a) includes: demodulating the received waveform with a carrier frequency signal to form a baseband signal; and sampling the baseband signal at a rate of twice the symbol rate. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (a) includes forming in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) baseband signals. 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the received waveform has a symbol rate and step (a) includes: demodulating the received waveform to form in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) baseband signals, each of the I and Q baseband signals sampled at a rate of twice the symbol rate; and phase-rotating each of the I and Q baseband signals to form serially demodulated I and Q baseband signals, each of the serial I and Q baseband signals having the same predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein a number of segments is 4 segments. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the SYNC sequence includes 128 symbols, divided into 4 segments each of 32 symbols. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (b) includes: aligning in time a first set of symbols of one segment of the SYNC sequence with a second set of symbols of another segment of the SYNC sequence; and concurrently correlating the first set of symbols and the second set of symbols with the serial baseband signal to form the parallel correlated output signals. 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (b) includes: sampling the serial baseband signal at a rate greater than or equal to twice a symbol rate of the SYNC sequence of symbols; and correlating the serial baseband signal with one of the segments of the SYNC sequence of symbols by multiplying every other sample of the serial baseband signal with the SYNC sequence of symbols. 10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the parallel correlated output signals includes pairs of correlated in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals, each pair corresponding to one of segments, and step (f) includes: computing one of a magnitude signal or a squared magnitude for each of the pairs. 11. The method according to claim 10, wherein computing the squared magnitude includes: computing a squared magnitude for each pair of the correlated I and Q output signals; and combining the squared magnitude of each of the pairs to form the squared magnitude. 12. The method according to claim 11, wherein computing the magnitude includes computing a square root of the squared magnitude. 13. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (c) includes: selectively delaying each of the parallel correlated output signals, so that the parallel correlated output signals are time aligned; and combining the parallel correlated output signals after time alignment to form the combined correlation signal. 14. The method according to claim 3, further including correcting an error in the carrier frequency, after detecting SYNC. 15. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (e) includes comparing a value of a present correlation sample COR(k) in the combined correlation signal to a value of a past sample COR(k−1) and a value of a future sample COR(k+1), where k is an integer, and selecting a largest value as the peak. 16. The method according to claim 1 wherein step (g) includes: selecting a maximum value from the correlation strength estimates to form a current value; comparing the current value to a previously selected maximum value of a correlation strength estimate; and adjusting the SYNC threshold level based on the comparison, wherein the current value is selected as the SYNC threshold value when the current value is greater than the previously selected value. 17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the SYNC threshold level is lowpass filtered at a predetermined time constant. 18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the SYNC threshold level is adjusted by mapping the selected maximum value from the correlation strength estimates into the SYNC threshold level using a look up table (LUT) stored in a memory. 19. A method for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols, the method comprising the steps of: a) serially demodulating the received waveform into a serial baseband signal having the same predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols; b) simultaneously correlating the entire serial baseband signal with each of a plurality of segments of the SYNC sequence of symbols to form a plurality of parallel correlated output signals, the plurality of segments forming the predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols; c) computing correlation strength estimates of each of the parallel correlated output signals; d) combining the correlation strength estimates to form a combined correlation signal; and e) detecting SYNC using the combined correlation signal; wherein step (d) includes: selectively delaying each of the correlation strength estimates, so that the correlation strength estimates are time aligned; and combining the correlation strength estimates after time alignment to form the combined correlation signal. 20. The method according to claim 19, further including the steps of: f) determining a peak of the combined correlation signal; g) adjusting a SYNC threshold level based upon the correlation strength estimates; and h) comparing the peak of step (f) with the SYNC threshold level of step (g) to detect SYNC. 21. The method according to claim 19, wherein the received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform includes one of minimum shift keying (MSK), Gaussian MSK, serial quasi-bandlimited-MSK (SQBL-MSK), binary phase shift keying (BPSK), filtered BPSK, offset quadrature PSK (OQPSK), intersymbol jitter free OQPSK (IJF-OQPSK), raised cosine filtered OQPSK (RC-OQPSK), continuous phase modulation (CPM), or tamed frequency modulation (TFM). 22. The method according to claim 19, wherein the received waveform has a symbol rate and step (a) includes: demodulating the received waveform to form in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) baseband signals, each of the I and Q baseband signals sampled at a rate of twice the symbol rate; and phase-rotating each of the I and Q baseband signals to form serially demodulated I and Q baseband signals, each of the serial I and Q baseband signals having the same predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols. 23. The method according to claim 19, wherein step (b) includes: aligning in time a first set of symbols of one segment of the SYNC sequence with a second set of symbols of another segment of the SYNC sequence; and concurrently correlating the first set of symbols and the second set of symbols with the serial baseband signal to form the parallel correlated output signals. 24. The method according to claim 20, wherein step (g) includes: selecting a maximum value from the correlation strength estimates to form a current value; comparing the current value to a previously selected maximum value of a correlation strength estimate; and adjusting the SYNC threshold level based on the comparison, wherein the current value is selected as the SYNC threshold value when the current value is greater than the previously selected value. 25. A receiver comprising: a demodulator for serially demodulating a received waveform into a serial baseband signal, the serial baseband signal having a predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols; a matched filter for correlating the serial baseband signal with a plurality of segments of the SYNC sequence of symbols to form a plurality of parallel correlated output signals, the plurality of segments forming the predetermined SYNC sequence of symbols; a correlation strength estimator for computing correlation strength estimates of each of the parallel correlated output signals; a combiner for combining one of the correlation strength estimates or the parallel correlated output signals to form a combined correlation signal; a peak detector for determining a peak in the combined correlation signal; a threshold adjustor for adjusting a SYNC threshold level based upon the correlation strength estimates; and a comparator for comparing the peak in the combined correlation signal with the SYNC threshold level to detect synchronization when the peak is greater than the SYNC threshold level. 26. The receiver of claim 25, wherein the received waveform includes one of minimum shift keying (MSK), Gaussian MSK, serial quasi-bandlimited-MSK (SQBL-MSK), binary phase shift keying (BPSK), filtered BPSK offset quadrature PSK (OQPSK), intersymbol litter free OQPSK (IJF-OQPSK), rasied cosine filtered OQPSK (RC-OQPSK), bandwidth continuous phase modulation (CPM), or tamed frequency modulation (TFM).