Patent ID: 8358988

Claim:
A bit rate processor to process physical channel data in a wireless receiver, comprising: a front end processor configured to process physical channel data from a joint detector, the front end processor comprising a frame buffer configured to receive the physical channel data from the joint detector and hold a frame of the physical channel data, the frame buffer having first and second sections, each for holding a subframe of the physical channel data, wherein each subframe of the physical channel data includes data from a plurality of transport channels, wherein the front end processor further comprises a processing circuit configured to process the frame of the physical channel data, the processing circuit comprising a de-mapping engine to de-map the subframes, wherein the processing circuit is configured to determine whether the physical channel data corresponds to a first spreading code and discard the physical channel data on determining that the physical channel data does not correspond to a first spreading code; a transport channel buffer configured to receive encoded transport channel data from the front end processor; and a back end processor configured to process the encoded transport channel data from the transport channel buffer to provide decoded transport channel bits, wherein the backend processor operates on a transport channel basis and processes data from the plurality of transport channels.