Abstract: A vector network analyzer using sliding correlator techniques and multi-user detection techniques. The sliding correlator technique is based on the time domain sliding effect caused by a small clock frequency offset in the pseudo random code generators of a transmitter and a receiver. A time scaled version of the impulse response of the device under test can be obtained from the time domain slided pseudo random code signals by using a correlator. A multi-user detection method is introduced using two uncorrelated pseudo random codes. One of the uncorrelated pseudo random codes measures the D.U.T. and another code is a reference channel. These codes can be demodulated and despread with one receiver module. A Fast Fourier Transform of the measured impulse response is the frequency response of the measured signal.

Abstract: A method and an architecture for correcting carrier frequency offset and spreading code timing offset in a direct sequence spread spectrum communication system are disclosed. In the present invention, the carrier frequency offset is divided into an integer part and a fractional part, wherein the integer part is defined as integer multiples of the reciprocal of the period of a spreading code. The integer part of the carrier frequency offset can be obtained by matching received signals with a spreading code whose central frequency is located at integer multiples of the reciprocal of the period of the spreading code and searching the one, of the matched results, with the largest amplitude. Besides, a direction flag can be obtained by comparing the amplitude of the searched one with that of the matched results neighboring the searched one.