Reception device and scrambling code decoding method

Abstract

A reception device includes: a channel estimation circuit to receive a first signal scrambled by one of N scrambling codes and transmitted through M carriers having different frequencies, and calculate N channel estimation values corresponding to N types of first specified signals based on the first signal, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; a channel equalization circuit to channel-equalize a second signal, which is transmitted using the one of N scrambling codes and the M carriers, based on the N channel estimation values; and a scrambling code decoding circuit to evaluate (N*M) equalized second signals based on N types of second specified signals and decode a scrambling code of the second signal from among the N scrambling codes.

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