Method for preparing a profile in W-CDMA communication

1. A method for preparing a profile in W-CDMA which, using a timer value and norm value, helps a mobile unit to synchronize its signals with those of a base station, comprising:

providing a profile data preparing portion which cumulatively adds a new norm value to a previous cumulative value fetched from a profile memory, to cause the result to be stored as a current cumulative value in a profile memory and repeat the same cumulative addition each time a new norm value is fed to said portion;

furnishing the profile data preparing portion with an overflow detection ability to detect the overflow of the profile memory; and

choosing, when the overflow of the profile memory is detected, a maximum writable value of the profile memory, and causing the profile memory to store said maximum writable value as a current cumulative value.

2. A method of claim 1 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein the profile data preparing portion comprises:

a register for recording the maximum writable value of the profile memory;

an N slot detector which detects the passage of a predetermined number of slots depending on a timer value provided each time a new slot is fed; and

a peak detecting portion including a previous timing register and previous peak norm register, and

wherein, if the N slot detector detects the passage of a predetermined number of slots, an overflow flag is delivered to the two registers as a threshold of peak detection to cause thereby the preparation of the profile to be discontinued.

3. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile memory is overflowed, the profile data preparing portion causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

4. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion suspects that the profile memory will be overflowed during the passage of a next slot, it causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

5. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that addition of a new norm value to a hitherto obtained maximum norm value will overflow the profile memory, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

6. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that addition of a new norm value to a hitherto obtained average norm value will overflow the profile memory, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

7. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that addition of a new norm value to a predetermined norm value will overflow the profile memory, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

8. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that the difference between the first and second cumulatively added peak norm values reaches a predetermined value, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

9. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that the ratio of the first cumulatively added peak norm value against the second cumulatively added peak norm value reaches a predetermined value, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

10. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that the difference between a cumulatively added peak norm value and a cumulatively added average norm value reaches a predetermined value, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

11. A method of claim 2 for preparing a profile in W-CDMA wherein, if the profile data preparing portion finds that the ratio of a cumulatively added peak norm value against a cumulatively added average norm value reaches a predetermined value, the portion in question causes succeeding operations to be discontinued even when the N slot detector does not yet detect the passage of a predetermined number N of slots.

12. A method for preparing a profile in W-CDMA comprising:

the first step of causing an N slot detector of a profile data preparing portion to start the preparation of a profile;

the second step of causing an adder of the profile data preparing portion to cumulatively add a new norm to a previous cumulative value to produce thereby a current cumulative value;

the third step of causing an overflow detector to check whether the current cumulative value exceeds a maximum writable value, and, if the overflow detector finds that the current cumulative value exceeds the maximum writable value, causing an overflow treatment to be introduced;

the fourth step of causing a peak detecting portion to compare, for each sample, the current cumulative value with a peak norm value, i.e., the maximum of all hitherto obtained norm values, and, if the current cumulative value exceeds the peak norm value, causing the peak norm value to be replaced with the current cumulative value which will then serve as a new peak norm value, and, if the current cumulative value does not exceed the peak norm value, causing the peak norm value to stay as before;

the fifth step of repeating peak detection of the fourth step until the detection has been performed for all the timing values of a slot;

the sixth step of checking the state of overflow flag on completion of peak detection for each slot;

the seventh step of causing, if it is found that the overflow flag takes a high state, the peak detecting portion to deliver a previous peak timing and previous peak norm value as output, and a write enable signal to take a high state, thereby preparation of the profile to be discontinued; and

the eighth step of causing, if it is found at the sixth step that the overflow flag takes a low state, a current peak timing and current peak norm value to be recorded in the previous peak timing and previous peak norm registers respectively, an N slot detector to check whether cumulative addition has been performed for all the predetermined number N of slots, and, if the N slot detector finds cumulative addition is not yet completed, the adder to continue cumulative addition, while if the N slot detector finds cumulative addition has been completed, the peak timing and peak norm registers to deliver a peak timing and peak norm value as output, thereby preparation of the profile to be discontinued.