Patent ID: 7277418

Claim:
A process for determining a lapse in time between a trigger signal and a start of a cyclic sequence of a pilot signal of a code division multiple access (CDMA) high frequency signal, said process comprising: a) simultaneously scanning the trigger signal and the pilot signal; b) storing the scanned trigger signal and the scanned pilot signal; c) conveying the stored trigger signal and the stored pilot signal to an offline evaluation device; d) comparing the stored trigger signal with a trigger threshold at the offline evaluation device to capture a time (t trig ) to reach the trigger threshold; e) generating a CDMA baseband signal at the offline evaluation device by transforming the stored pilot signal of the CDMA high frequency signal into a complex baseband; f) correlating the CDMA baseband signal with a cyclic reference sequence at the offline evaluation device to capture the time (t pn ) up to the start of the cyclic sequence of the pilot signal; g) subtracting t trig from t pn at the offline evaluation device to determine the lapse in time; and h) conveying the determined lapse in time to a signal generator for synchronization of a signal from the signal generator to the CDMA high frequency signal.