US Patent 11698464 GNSS receiver candidate selection

A GNSS receiver comprises a memory interface and a vector processor. The vector processor is configured to: receive, via the memory interface, an array comprising a plurality of correlation results stored in a memory, each correlation result associated with a respective combination of possible receiver parameters for the GNSS receiver; process the array to identify a subset of the correlation results in the array; and retain, in the memory, the identified subset and discard, from the memory, those correlation results of the plurality of correlation results not in the identified subset.