Abstract: A communication system, such as a digital cable network, achieves synchronization using data rate synchronization, clock frequency synchronization, or clock recovery synchronization techniques. The communication system includes a conversion clock at a transmitter and a conversion clock at a receiver. The data rate synchronization techniques adjust data rates by resampling digital data sent from the transmitter to the receiver to compensate for frequency variations in the conversion clocks. The clock frequency synchronization techniques use time stamps to adjust the receiver conversion clock frequency to substantially match the transmitter conversion clock frequency. The clock recovery techniques use a reference clock to adjust the transmitter conversion clock frequency and the receiver conversion clock frequency to be approximately the same.

Abstract: A communication system adjusts data rate to compensate for frequency variations in conversion clocks. The communication system includes a conversion clock at a transmitter and a conversion clock at a receiver that advance respective counters. A difference between the counters controls a resampling of digital data sent from the transmitter to the receiver. The conversion clocks run independently of each other. The difference between the counters incremented by respective conversion clocks provides an indication of the difference in frequencies between the conversion clocks. The difference is used to determine the ratio at which digitized information is resampled at the receiver before being converted to the analog domain.