A system and method for maintaining timing in a CDMA rake receiver has a
global chip counter that counts CDMA signal chips as they arrive at the
CDMA rake receiver. A local pseudo-noise (PN) sequence replica of the
incoming CDMA signal is generated and used to perform a sliding window
correlation of the locally generated PN sequence replica with the incoming
signal to correlate the CDMA signal timing relative to stored CDMA signal
chip counts. The PN sequence timing is maintained relative to GCC, which
avoids having to keep track of absolute time within each Rake finger.
