Patent ID: 7173957

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a mixer circuit to mix a de-spreaded sample with coefficients to generate a mixer sample at a first clock frequency, the de-spread sample being provided by a de-spreader circuit for a signal received from one of N satellites in a global positioning system (GPS), the de-spread sample includes de-spread in-phase and de-spread quadrature components, each component having 6 bits, the mixer sample including mixer in-phase and quadrature components, the mixer circuit comprising: an in-phase circuit to generate the mixer in-phase component based on a first complex multiplication on the de-spread in-phase and quadrature components and the sine and cosine values, the mixer in-phase component having 8 bits, and a quadrature circuit to generate the mixer quadrature component based on a second complex multiplication on the de-spread in-phase and quadrature components and the sine and cosine values, the mixer quadrature component having 8 bits; a look-up table coupled to the mixer circuit to generate the coefficients based on a carrier numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) value, the coefficients including sine and cosine values, each value having three bits; and a carrier NCO coupled to the look-up table to generate a carrier NCO value.