Three-stage architecture for adaptive clock recovery
First Claim
1. An adaptive clock recovery (ACR) system for a receiver, the ACR system comprising:
- a first closed-loop control processor that generates a reference phase signal from an input phase signal representing packet delay values corresponding to arrival times of packets at the receiver;
a delay-offset estimation component, that compares the input phase signal to the reference phase signal to generate a delay-offset estimate signal representative of a phase offset for the packet arrival times relative to the reference phase signal, wherein the phase offset is one of (i) a delay-floor phase offset and (ii) an established phase offset;
a delay-offset compensation component that generates a delay-offset-compensated phase signal based on the reference phase signal and the delay-offset estimate signal; and
a second closed-loop control processor that generates, from the delay-offset-compensated phase signal, an output phase signal, that can be used to generate a recovered clock signal.
6 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An adaptive clock recovery (ACR) system has a first closed-loop control processor (e.g., a first proportional-integral (PI) processor) that processes an input phase signal indicative of jittery packet arrival times to generate a mean phase reference. The input phase signal is compared to the mean phase reference to generate delay-offset values that are indicative of the delay-floor corresponding to the packet arrival times. The mean phase reference and the delay-offset values are used to generate offset-compensated phase values corresponding to the delay-floor. The ACR system also has a second closed-loop control processor (e.g., a second PI processor) that smoothes the offset-compensated phase values to generate an output phase signal that can be used to generate a relatively phase stable recovered clock signal, even during periods of varying network load that adversely affect the uniformity of the packet arrival times.
8 Citations
19 Claims
-
1. An adaptive clock recovery (ACR) system for a receiver, the ACR system comprising:
-
a first closed-loop control processor that generates a reference phase signal from an input phase signal representing packet delay values corresponding to arrival times of packets at the receiver; a delay-offset estimation component, that compares the input phase signal to the reference phase signal to generate a delay-offset estimate signal representative of a phase offset for the packet arrival times relative to the reference phase signal, wherein the phase offset is one of (i) a delay-floor phase offset and (ii) an established phase offset; a delay-offset compensation component that generates a delay-offset-compensated phase signal based on the reference phase signal and the delay-offset estimate signal; and a second closed-loop control processor that generates, from the delay-offset-compensated phase signal, an output phase signal, that can be used to generate a recovered clock signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19)
-
-
11. A receiver-implemented method for recovering a clock signal in a packet system, the method comprising:
-
the receiver generating a reference phase signal, from an input phase signal representing packet delay values corresponding to arrival times of packets at a receiver; the receiver comparing the input phase signal to the reference phase signal to generate a delay-offset estimate signal representative of a phase offset for the packet arrival times relative to the reference phase signal, wherein the phase offset is one of (i) a delay-floor phase offset and (ii) an established phase offset; the receiver generating a delay-offset-compensated phase signal based on the reference phase signal and the delay-offset estimate signal; and the receiver generating, from the delay-offset-compensated phase signal, an output phase signal that can be used to generate a recovered clock signal. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
-
Specification