System and method for detecting direct sequence spread spectrum signals using batch processing of independent parameters

A circuit comprising:

• a memory to store sets of search parameters and search results, wherein each set of search parameters is assigned a reference number, and a set of search results for a set of search parameters is stored with the same reference number;
• a searcher coupled to the memory, the searcher containing circuitry to read a set of search parameters from the memory, process pseudo-random number (PN) sequences generated based the set of search parameters with a received sequence, and write the correlation results to a set of search results with the reference number of the set of search parameters;
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• a sequence generator coupled to the searcher, the sequence generator containing circuitry to generate a PN sequence from each hypothesis provided to it by the searcher.

A wireless device comprising:

• an analog front end coupled to an antenna, the analog front end containing circuitry to filter and amplify a received signal provided by the antenna;
• an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the ADC to convert an analog signal provided by the analog front end into a digital symbol stream;
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• a processing unit coupled to the ADC, the processing unit containing circuitry to store sets of search parameters and search results, test hypotheses derived from the sets of search parameters.