Abstract: Signals from antennas A and B are alternately switched by an antenna switch at a predetermined rate. Then, the signals from the antennas A and B are alternately input to a wireless receiving unit. The wireless receiving unit orthogonal-signal-detects the signals received by the antennas A and B, and inputs the detected signals to a branch selecting unit. The branch selecting unit extracts only the signals from either of the antennas from the signals obtained from the antennas A and B, which are alternately arranged in time series, and transmits the extracted signals to a matched filter. A searcher obtains despreading timings from correlation values, and stores the obtained timings in two memories. The searcher obtains despreading timings with large correlation values, and transmits the timings to a despreading unit to perform RAKE reception.

Abstract: In a CDMA receiver for receiving a signal containing data that has been spread by a predetermined spreading code sequence, calculating a correlation value between a reference code sequence and a spread data sequence obtained by sampling the received signal at a predetermined sampling rate, and adopting, as despread start timing, the timing at which the correlation value is maximized, a reception-state detector detects the state of reception, a sampling controller decides sampling rate in conformity with the state of reception, a correlator calculates a correlation between a reference code sequence and a spread data sequence, which is obtained by sampling a received signal at the above-mentioned sampling rate, and a timing detector obtains the despread start timing at which the correlation value is maximized.