A Study on the Rake Finger System Design for the System Performance Improvement in the Mobile Communications

In this paper, we proposed the new structure of the Rake Finger using Walsh Switch, the shared accumulator, and the pipeline-FWHT algorithm for reducing the signal processing complexity resulting from the increase of the number of data correlator. The function simulation of the proposed architecture is performed by Synopsys tool and the timing simulation is performed by Compass tool. The number of computational operation in the proposed data correlators is 160 additions and the conventional ones is 512 additions when the number of walsh code N=4. As a result, it is reduced about 3.2 times other than the number of computational operation of the conventional ones. Also, the result shows that the data processing time of the proposed Rake Finger architecture is 90,496[ns] and the conventional ones is 110,696[ns]. It is faster than the data processing time of the conventional Rake Finger architecture.