Abstract: A method and system for estimating and compensating for variation between a receiver clock and a transmitter clock, where a receiver utilizes a high frequency clock signal to generate a receiver clock and then adjusts the receiver clock to compensate for variations between the receiver and transmitter clocks. The adjusted receiver clock is used to sample nibble pulses in a received data frame. Counter based compensation of the receiver clock eliminates the need for the receiver to perform floating point calculations, improves the accuracy of nibble pulse sampling and also reduces area and power consumption of the device.