Method and system for single antenna receiver system for WCDMA

A system for processing radio frequency (RF) signals, comprising:

• a circuit comprising at least one cluster path processor and a maximum-ratio combining processor, wherein said maximum-ratio combining processor includes a rake receiver, said circuit being configured to:
• compute channel estimates based on a plurality of chip-level data items received via a plurality of received multipath signals;
• generate timing reference signals indicating a location of said at least one of said plurality of received multipath signals;
• maximum-ratio combine at least a portion of said plurality of received chip-level data items as a signal cluster to form a combined plurality of chip-level data items based on at least one of said computed channel estimates and said generated timing reference signals, wherein the circuit is further configured to assign a finger of the rake receiver to the signal cluster;
• and
• extract transmitted information from said combined plurality of chip-level data items.