Patent ID: 8368812

Claim:
Phase-locked loop for synthesizing a synchronization signal from samples PCR r resulting from sampling operations of a master synchronization signal, said sampling operations being cadenced by a sampling clock having a period, said master synchronization signal having a sawtooth time waveform comprising a succession of identical counting ramps separated by a temporal discontinuity with a maximum amplitude PCR_Modulus, said loop comprising: comparison means for comparing said samples PCR r and local samples PCR_loc 1 , said comparison means issuing a comparison result; means for producing the synthesized signal and said local samples PCR_loc 1 from a corrected signal, wherein said local samples PCR_loc 1 result from sampling operations of said synthesized signal cadenced by said sampling clock, a corrector receiving the comparison result delivered by the comparison means and delivering the corrected signal, the corrector comprising a single first corrector block having a z-transfer function that is expressed in the form y 0 +y 1 Z −1 , where y 0 and y 1 are real numbers, wherein the comparison means comprises means for performing a difference ε=PCR r −PCR_loc 1 and the comparison result has a value equal to said difference or to a linear combination of said difference and of the half value of said maximum amplitude PCR_Modulus.