METHOD OF SYNCHRONISING DATA

摘要

A method of synchronising data in a communications system (10) comprises the steps of: (a) Generating at transmitting means (20) a composite signal comprising a serial stream of data partitioned in one or more frames; (b) transmitting the composite signal through communicating means (50) to receiving means (30); (c) generating multiphase clock signals; (d) comparing the composite signal received at the receiving means with each of the multiphase clock signals until either sustained coincidence therebetween is achieved or sustained non-coincidence is achieved, thereby synchronising the receiving means to bit boundaries in the composite signal and to one or more of the clock phase signals; (e) correlating one or more bit templates at the receiving means with one or more corresponding bit templates in the composite signal received at the receiving means to determine where frames start in the composite signal, thereby synchronising the receiving means to the one or more frames in the composite signal.