The invention provides a technique that saves rate conversion accompanying
complicated calculations and shares an analog filter for anti-aliasing in
a sampling device. The sampling device employs an anti-alias filter
having a fixed cutoff frequency, an A/D converter and a D/A converter
each having a clock signal input, which are capable of varying a sampling
frequency, and a PLL circuit capable of varying the frequency of a clock
signal; and it sets the sampling frequency not lower than an integral
multiple of a signal bandwidth and double the cutoff frequency for
sampling.