Patent ID: 7027492

Claim:
A wireless base station, comprising: at least one receive antenna for receiving communication signals from at least one transmitting station, the signals being spread with a plurality of chips; circuitry for selecting a set of chips corresponding to a first signal received by the at least one receive antenna; circuitry for forming a set of de-spread chips corresponding to the set of chips and in response to a code; a functional data path comprising an accumulator for processing the set of de-spread chips; and circuitry for receiving an instruction; wherein the functional data path is operable in response to a first instruction, received by the circuitry for receiving an instruction, to accumulate a first number of de-spread chips in the set of de-spread chips and for producing at least one corresponding symbol; and wherein the functional data path is operable in response to a second instruction, received by the circuitry for receiving an instruction, to accumulate a second number of de-spread chips in the set of de-spread chips and for producing an EOL measure.