Re: Software PLL (SPLL)

Tim Wescott wrote:
> Implementing a PLL in software uses the same basic theory as
> implementing a PLL in hardware -- you compare your synthesized signal to
> a reference, generate a phase difference, then servo the frequency of
> your synthesized signal to your reference.

Why?  Isn't a software PLL just a forward interpolator.  Why not just
estimate (statistical, FFT, phase vocoder or otherwise) the frequency,
phase, derivatives of phase, etc.; generate a forward interpolation of
the input reference using that information, and call that the output of
the PLL NCO?  Recalculate periodically (every sample if the compute
power is available).


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