Scaling apparatus of a receiver

1. A scaling apparatus set in a receiver, the scaling apparatus comprising:

a calculating unit, for estimating the signal strength of a received symbol and generating a scaling factor accordingly;

a delay unit for delaying the received symbol; and

a scaling unit, coupled to the calculating unit and the delay unit, for scaling the received symbol outputted by the delay unit according to the scaling factor;

wherein the received symbol is a frequency domain symbol; the calculating unit sums at least one of a plurality of strength factors to generate an estimation value, and compares the estimation value with a threshold value to generate the scaling factor; and the strength factors correspond to the amplitude of a plurality of selected sub-carriers in the received symbol.

2. The scaling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the selected sub-carriers comprise pilot sub-carriers in the received symbol.

3. The scaling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the calculating unit estimates the signal strength of the received symbol while the delay unit is delaying the received symbol.

4. The scaling apparatus of claim 1 , wherein an input of the calculating unit is directly connected to an input of the delay unit.

5. A scaling apparatus set in a receiver, the scaling apparatus comprising:

a calculating unit, for estimating the signal strength of a received symbol and generating a scaling factor accordingly;

a delay unit for delaying the received symbol; and

a scaling unit, coupled to the calculating unit and the delay unit, for scaling the received symbol outputted by the delay unit according to the scaling factor;

wherein the received symbol is a time domain symbol; the calculating unit sums at least one of a plurality of strength factors to generate an estimation value, and compares the estimation value with a threshold value to generate the scaling factor; and the strength factors correspond to the amplitude of a plurality of selected data samples in the symbol.

6. A scaling apparatus set in a receiver, the receiver comprising a symbol-processing unit, the scaling apparatus comprising:

a calculating unit, for estimating the signal strength of an input symbol and generating a scaling factor accordingly; and

a scaling unit, coupled to the calculating unit and the symbol-processing unit, for scaling an output symbol outputted from the symbol-processing unit according to the scaling factor;

wherein the output symbol is generated from the symbol-processing unit through processing the input symbol; the input symbol is a frequency domain symbol; the calculating unit sums at least one of a plurality of strength factors to generate an estimation value, and compares the estimation value with a threshold value to generate the scaling factor; and the strength factors correspond to the amplitude of a plurality of selected sub-carriers in the input symbol.

7. The scaling apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the selected sub-carriers comprise pilot sub-carriers in the input symbol.

8. The scaling apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the calculating unit estimates the signal strength of the input symbol while the symbol-processing unit is processing the input symbol.

9. The scaling apparatus of claim 6 , wherein an input of the calculating unit is directly connected to an input of the symbol-processing unit.

10. A scaling apparatus set in a receiver, the receiver comprising a symbol-processing unit, the scaling apparatus comprising:

a calculating unit, for estimating the signal strength of an input symbol and generating a scaling factor accordingly; and

a scaling unit, coupled to the calculating unit and the symbol-processing unit, for scaling an output symbol outputted from the symbol-processing unit according to the scaling factor;

wherein the output symbol is generated from the symbol-processing unit through processing the input symbol; and the symbol-processing unit comprises a bit reversal unit for rearranging a disorderly input symbol to generate an orderly output symbol.

11. The scaling apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the symbol-processing unit further comprises an FFT unit coupled to the bit reversal unit for transferring a data symbol in time domain to generate the disorderly input symbol in frequency domain.

12. A scaling apparatus set in a receiver, the receiver comprising a symbol-processing unit, the scaling apparatus comprising:

a calculating unit, for estimating the signal strength of an input symbol and generating a scaling factor accordingly; and

a scaling unit, coupled to the calculating unit and the symbol-processing unit, for scaling an output symbol outputted from the symbol-processing unit according to the scaling factor;

wherein the output symbol is generated from the symbol-processing unit through processing the input symbol; the input symbol is a time domain symbol; the calculating unit sums at least one of a plurality of strength factors to generate an estimation value, and compares the estimation value with a threshold value to generate the scaling factor; and the strength factors correspond to the amplitude of a plurality of selected data samples in the input symbol.

13. A scaling apparatus set in a receiver, the receiver comprising a symbol-processing unit, the scaling apparatus comprising:

a calculating unit, for estimating the signal strength of an input symbol and generating a scaling factor accordingly; and

a scaling unit, coupled to the calculating unit and the symbol-processing unit, for scaling an output symbol outputted from the symbol-processing unit according to the scaling factor;

wherein the output symbol is generated from the symbol-processing unit through processing the input symbol; and the symbol-processing unit comprises a bit reversal unit for rearranging an orderly input symbol to generate a disorderly output symbol.