Soft Sync
There are several other kinds of sync which may also be called Soft Sync. In a Hard Sync setup, the slave oscillator is forced to reset to some level and phase (for example, zero) with every cycle of the master regardless of position or direction of the slave waveform, which often generates asymmetrical shapes.
In some usage, Soft Sync means a sync intended to nudge and lock the slave oscillator into the same or an integer or fractional multiple of the master oscillator frequency when they both have similar phases. See also Phase locked loop
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