Editing Rake receiver (section)

== Use ==
Rake receivers are common in a wide variety of [[CDMA]] and [[W-CDMA]] radio devices such as mobile phones and [[wireless LAN]] equipment.

Rake receivers are also used in [[radio astronomy]]. The [[Australia Telescope National Facility|CSIRO Parkes radio telescope]] and [[Jodrell Bank Observatory|Jodrell Bank telescope]] have [[filter-bank]] recording formats that can be processed in real time by software-based rake receivers.

In a Flexible rake Receiver, [[signal (electrical engineering)|signal]] reception is performed with a single [[Cross-correlation|correlator]] engine and a [[stream (computing)|stream]] [[buffer (computer science)|buffer]] storing the entire delay spread of [[baseband]] [[input/output]] (I/O) [[sample (signal)|sample]]s. The primary advantage of the rake receiver is flexible [[Multipath propagation|multipath]] allocation supporting enhanced [[modularity (programming)|modularity]] of the receiver and resource sharing among multiple [[channel (communications)|channel]] decoders.