Patent ID: 7324601

Claim:
A coarse frequency synchronization apparatus in a frequency synchronizer of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver, the apparatus comprising: a buffer operable to receive a demodulated symbol and output a shifted symbol generated by cyclically shifting the demodulated symbol by a predetermined shift amount; a controller operable to determine a length of summation interval according to a phase coherence bandwidth and a number of sub-bands into which the summation interval is divided, and generate and adjust a symbol time offset according to the number of sub-bands; a reference symbol predistortion portion operable to generate a reference symbol whose phase is distorted by the symbol time offset; a counter operable to determine the shift amount; a partial correlation portion operable to receive the shifted symbol and the reference symbol and calculate a partial correlation value for each of the sub-bands; and a maximum value detector operable to calculate the shift amount where the sum of the partial correlation values is a maximum and output the shift amount as an estimated coarse frequency offset value.