Patent ID: 7532662

Claim:
A receiver comprising: an input for receiving an input signal comprising a plurality of symbols from a plurality of multi-path transmission channels; and a plurality of fingers connected to said input, each finger comprising a plurality of demodulation units assigned to the plurality of multi-path transmission channels for demodulation thereof, each demodulation unit comprising a channel correction circuit, a shared memory upstream from said channel correction circuits and being shared by said plurality of demodulation units for performing a delay function therefor, and a controller for successively time-division multiplexing read and write access operations to said shared memory during successive time slots so that one symbol, for each active multi-path transmission channel, can be read and written during each time slot; wherein each multi-path transmission channel has a spread factor associated therewith; and wherein the successive time slots have a duration equal to a minimal duration of a symbol corresponding to a minimal spread factor.