FINGER MANAGER FOR ENHANCED DEDICATED CHANNEL (E-DCH) APPLICATIONS

摘要

A downlink channel receiver operable to implement finger management strategies with fractional dedicated physical channel (F-DPCH) and E-DCH processing within a Rake receiver structure is provided. The downlink channel receiver includes a receiver, a baseband processing block, and a WCDMA processing block, wherein F-DPCH and E-DCH processing is divided between a plurality of hardware processing blocks and a plurality of firmware (FW) processing blocks. The finger management strategies within the Rake receiver structure are implemented by the plurality of FW processing blocks.