Example embodiments describe a CDR, circuitry (400) for sampling a burst serial
data signal (401) characterized by a data
symbol period; the burst serial
data signal containing at least a
preamble and data portion (401b); the CDR circuitry is configurable in a first mode (403a) for detecting (440) a sampling position when receiving the
preamble portion, and in a second mode (403b) for sampling (410) the data portion. The CDR comprises i) a sampling circuitry (410) to sample the
signal by at least one sampling
clock (404); ii) a sampling
clock generator (450) to generate from a reference
clock signal (405) with a configurable phase shift (408) one first and one second sampling clock (404a, 404b) for sampling the burst serial
data signal by the sampling circuitry when in the respective first and second mode, and to generate the second sampling clock (404b) for sampling times per data
symbol period, and to generate the first sampling clock (404a) such that the sampling circuitry samples different sampling positions within an equivalent data
symbol period during data symbol periods by adjusting the sampling period of the at least one first sampling
clock signal by a sampling offset,, during the sampling of the data symbol periods; and iii) an
edge detection circuitry (440) configured to, in the first mode, determine a sampling position from the sampled predefined pattern, and configured to derive the configurable phase shift from the determined sampling position and the applied sampling offset.