Rake receiver in third generation mobile radiotelephone systems

A rake receiver for telecommunication systems with wireless telecommunication between transceivers, the rake receiver comprising:

• a pipeline architecture including three pipeline stages in which individual signal processing steps are processed on a pipeline;
• registers operatively coupled to the pipeline stages for buffering data between the pipeline stages;
• a memory device operatively coupled to a first of the pipeline stages, wherein the first pipeline stage reads received chips from the memory device and calculates an address by adding a value from a free running addresses counter to at least one rake-finger dependant offset;
• an interpolator operatively coupled to a second of the pipeline stages to determine conjugate complex coefficients by interpolating between two channel estimations;
• and
• an accumulator operatively coupled to a third of the pipeline stages to provide early/late tracking of rake fingers.