摘要:
A method and circuitry for suppressing additive transient disturbances in an analog differential input signal, such disturbances being due, for example, to thermal asperity transients caused by an MR transducer (10) contacting a moving storage surface (11). The input data signal is algebraically summed by a summing circuit (14) with a corrective feedback signal for providing as output signal. The output signal is fed back to a circuit (16) including an envelope detector (15) and differentiator (17) and converted into another signal that is the derivative of an amplitude envelope corresponding to the output signal. Nonlinear signal-adaptive filter means (18) converts the other signal into the corrective feedback signal, which substantially replicates the additive transient disturbance and is subtracted from the data input signal to render the output signal substantially free of the transient disturbance. The input, output and corrective signals are preferably differential signals.
摘要:
A method and circuitry for suppressing additive transient disturbances in an analog differential input signal, such disturbances being due, for example, to thermal asperity transients caused by an MR transducer (10) contacting a moving storage surface (11). The input data signal is algebraically summed by a summing circuit (14) with a corrective feedback signal for providing as output signal. The output signal is fed back to a circuit (16) including an envelope detector (15) and differentiator (17) and converted into another signal that is the derivative of an amplitude envelope corresponding to the output signal. Nonlinear signal-adaptive filter means (18) converts the other signal into the corrective feedback signal, which substantially replicates the additive transient disturbance and is subtracted from the data input signal to render the output signal substantially free of the transient disturbance. The input, output and corrective signals are preferably differential signals.