Synchronization Design for Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System

Abstract

In land seismic data acquisition systems, as seismic exploration goes towards to cover large area, a multi-channel structure is needed. In such systems, synchronization is very important, which has great influence on data acquisition and transmission. In this paper, a clock synchronization scheme for seismic exploration is proposed. In the scheme, LVDS serial transmission is used so that the whole system clocks can be made to have the same frequency through clock data recovery technique. Moreover, to compensate the effect caused by transmission delay, an effective algorithm based on PLL phase locked and FPGA logic is proposed in this scheme. The test results show that this scheme meets the system clock synchronization requirements well with the error precision less than 1ns, which fully demonstrates the feasibility and reliability of the scheme. The scheme proposed here can be used in related systems which require clock synchronization.