摘要 |
Two or more local-oscillator-equipped instruments connected to a network are disclosed. Among the instruments, one instrument is designated as the master instrument and the rest, slave instruments. A master clock signal generated by the local oscillator of the master instrument is used by the slave instruments, through the network, to discipline their own local oscillators to generate slave clock signals that are synchronized to the master clock signal. In one embodiment, in the slave instrument, the master clock signal from the master instrument is used as a reference to generate slave clock signals. In another embodiment, the phases of the slave clock signals are adjusted to compensate for the phase difference between the slave clock signals and the master clock signal.
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