Method and apparatus of a multi-code code division multiple access receiver having shared accumulator circuits

A multicode (MC) code division multiple access (CDMA) receiver comprising

• rake receiver means for receiving and demodulating a MC-CDMA signal including N (where N>1) encoded signal channels into N signal samples,
• a common logic circuit for time-sharing an accumulator, for accumulating the timing information of the N signal samples, among a plurality of correlator means, and
• each of the plurality of correlator means either utilizes the sample accumulation from each of the N signals from the time-shared accumulator for decoding an associated one of the N signal channels, or utilizes the sample accumulation from each of the N signals from the time-shared accumulator for tracking and acquiring timing information for a preselected channel of the MC-CDMA-signal.