Abstract-A description of optimal sequences for direct-spread codedivision multiple access (S-CDMA) is a byproduct of recent characterizations of the sum capacity. This correspondence restates the sequence design problem as an inverse singular value problem and shows that the problem can be solved with finite-step algorithms from matrix theory. It proposes a new one-sided algorithm that is numerically stable and faster than previous methods.Index Terms-Algorithms, code-division multiple access (CDMA), inverse eigenvalue problems, optimal sequences, sum capacity.