[ot] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Syncronizing Sample Clocks [WAS: A bit of goodnews--paper now available for your viewing pleasure and/or comments]

Tim Goetze tim at quitte.de
Fri May 28 23:37:27 UTC 2004


[Fred Gleason]
>This issue affects many more applications than just audio.  *Any* system that
>requires precise replication of clock (as, for example, most any digital
>telecommunication scheme does) faces this dilemma.  In the end, some form
>*locking*, slave clock to master, is needed.  A variety of methodologies,
>such as PLL (phase lock loop) exist to do this, but the bottom line remains
>that some sort of hardware support will be necessary.

otoh you can always count on people to make up for nonexistent
hardware in software :)

tim



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