Patent ID: 7397870

Claim:
An ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver comprising: a signal input; a filter and amplifier unit (FAU) coupled to the signal input, the FAU containing circuitry to eliminate interferers and amplify a signal provided by the signal input to generate an input signal having a pulse with a specified magnitude; a self-adjusting pulse detector coupled to the FAU, the self-adjusting pulse detector comprising a plurality of correlation circuits operable to correlate the pulse with a desired signal at different times from each other, the self-adjusting pulse detector containing circuitry to select an output signal from one of the plurality of correlation circuits having a highest relative correlation value; and a baseband processor coupled to the self-adjusting pulse detector, the baseband processor containing circuitry to equalize and decode a data stream in the selected output signal provided by the self-adjusting pulse detector.