The multistage linear receiver of Moshavi et al. was designed to appro
ximate the decorrelating detector and the MMSE detector without calcul
ating the inverse of the crosscorrelation matrix R of the spreading co
des directly. However, it is complicated by the need to calculate a se
t of weights using a procedure involving the inverting of a large matr
ix. A modified structure is proposed to accomplish the same task witho
ut the need for computationally intensive procedures such as matrix in
version.