Method of and apparatus for detecting phase

摘要

A phase-locked loop included in a reproduce signal processing circuit which as a magnetic recording and reproducing device or the like. The phase-locked loop accurately detects a phase and can be operated at high speed. The phase-locked loop includes a data determining circuit for judging data at individual times from sampled data in a plurality of samples and an estimated data string generating circuit for examining the correlation between each data string and each known phase-locked data string and sequentially generating the known phase-locked data string closet to the data string. A sampling phase is detected by performing an arithmetic operation on the data string estimated by the estimated data string generating circuit and the sampled data.