Method for processing a sampled rectified ultra wide band signal

A method for processing, in an ultra-wide band receiver, a rectified received signal sampled at a frequency fE, including at least one sliding correlation between a selection of the sampled rectified received signal and a correlation sequence, the correlation sequence including at least one elementary correlation sequence of duration TS equal to the duration of a sequence S of a transmitted signal which corresponds to the received signal and data which follow each other at a frequency fC such that fC=fE/k, k being an integer larger than or equal to 1, an elementary correlation sequence datum corresponding on a one-to-one basis to a datum of a transmission code used for forming the sequence S and having a spreading duration comprised between 1/fE and 1/fc, the sliding correlation carrying out a succession of n elementary correlation steps, n being an integer larger than or equal to 2, at a frequency f less than or equal to fE and greater than or equal to fc, the method comprising, for each selection of the received signal:

• an elementary correlation carrying out a correlation operation between the relevant selection of the sampled rectified ultra-wide band received signal and the correlation sequence to provide a series of intermediate correlation samples;
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• summation of the intermediate correlation samples provided to obtain a single elementary correlation sample;
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• the n elementary correlation samples obtained forming a first correlation vector.