Syncronizing a data acquisition device with a host

Details Syncronizing a data acquisition device with a host Syncronizing a data acquisition device with a host

1997-06-30

1999-06-22

Vo, Don N.

Pulse or digital communications

Synchronizers

Synchronizing the sampling time of digital data

H04L 700

Patent

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059149914

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for synchronizing a reference clock signal received from a host system with an A/D converter clock signal generated in a data acquisition pod. The pod includes a decoder responsive to communication received from the host for extracting a host reference signal, and a clock signal source for developing an A/D reference clock signal having a frequency that is different from the frequency of the host reference signal. A pulse modifying digital phase-locked loop (PLL) is responsive to the A/D reference clock signal and the host reference signal for developing an A/D clock signal for an A/D converter in which one of its clock periods is periodically modified, thereby locking the rate at which the A/D converter develops samples to the rate at which the host system requests samples. In a preferred embodiment the pod also includes a signal detector for detecting a specified alignment in time of the readiness of the A/D converter to provide a given sample with a host system request for that given sample, and upon such detection, selectively providing an enable signal to the PLL, thereby enabling operation of the PLL and synchronizing the host and pod clock rates, as well as locking in a given alignment the providing to the host of the samples developed by the A/D converter with the host system requests for those samples.

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Application Note published by Actel Corporation in Apr. 1996 entitled "Using FGPAs for Digital PLL Applications".

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