Abstract: A pseudo-noise generator (516) generates an on-time component, an early component and a late component of a pseudo-noise code signal in response to an error signal. The on-time component is routed to a deinterleave and demodulate device (210) which demodulates and decodes baseband signals from received spread spectrum signals. An adder (518) subtracts the early component from the late component to form a summation signal. A multiplier (520) multiplies the summation with the received signal to form a product signal. An integrator (522) integrates the product signal to form the error signal. The error signal is fed back into the pseudo-noise generator (516) to fine tune the on-time component, the early component and the late component of the pseudo-noise code signal. As a result, a spread spectrum signal is demodulated and decoded using only one correlator (504) instead of two.