Patent ID: 7848474

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an interface operable to receive a signal carrying information; a timing phase selection module operatively coupled to the interface and operable to select, from a plurality of timing phases, a timing phase most closely aligned with a phase of the information carried by the received signal, wherein the timing phase selection module comprises a sampling module operatively coupled to the interface and operable to sample the received signal at least once per timing phase of the plurality of timing phases, wherein the timing phase selection module is operable to determine the timing phase most closely matched to the phase of the information carried by the received signal based on samples taken by the sampling module, wherein the sampling module is operable to sample the received signal multiple times per timing phase of the plurality of timing phases, and wherein the sampling module comprises: a plurality of sets of multiple samplers, each set of samplers being operatively coupled to the interface and operable to sample the received signal multiple times according to a respective one of the plurality of timing phases.