摘要:
Reduction of the complexity of a Viterbi-type sequence detector is disclosed. It was based on elimination of less probably taken branches in the trellis. The method is applied to the design of the E 2 PR4 channel with 8/9 rate sliding block trellis code. Coding, by itself eliminates two states by coding constraints, and the disclosed method reduces the number of required ACS units from 14 to 11, while reducing their complexity as well. For the implementation of E 2 PR4 detection, 4 4-way, 3 3-way, 3 2-way and one 1-way ACSs are needed. System simulations show no BER performance drop at common SNRs when compared with a full 16-state E 2 PR4 implementation in magnetic disk drives.
摘要:
Data detection capability is improved by whitening crosstalk noise from an equalization signal and detecting binary data. Each of a plurality of detection signals generated by using photoreceptor signals of a plurality of divided areas of an optical detection section is input to one of a plurality of adaptive equalizers, and outputs of the plurality of adaptive equalizers are computed to obtain an equalization signal for returning light at the time of shining of light onto bounds including a target track subject to data detection and adjacent tracks of an optical recording medium having a plurality of tracks formed thereon. Crosstalk noise from the adjacent tracks included in the equalization signal obtained by this multi-input adaptive equalization process is whitened first, followed by a binarization process. Also, an equalization error is found from an equalization target obtained based on a binary detection result and from the equalization signal obtained by the multi-input adaptive equalization process, and the equalization error is supplied to the plurality of adaptive equalizers as a control signal for adaptive equalization. Further, a whitening factor updating process is also performed to adaptively update a filter factor of a whitening filter.
摘要:
When processing a two dimensional data area it is known to be advantageous to divide the two dimensional are into stripes and process each stripe using a stripe-wise detector. The stripe being processed shifts row per row downwards. Each stripe has as its output the bit-decisions of the top bit-row of the stripe which is the most reliable. That output bit-row is also used as side-information for the bit detection of the next stripe which is the stripe which is shifted one bit-row downwards. The bit-row just across the bottom of the stripe on the other hand still needs to be determined in the current iteration, so only the initialisation bit-values can be used in the first iteration of the stripe-wise bit-detector. In order to prevent the propagation of errors towards the top bit row of the stripe the relative weight for the bottom branch bit in the figure-of-merit is reduced from the full 100% to a lower fraction.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an arrangement for adaptive bit recovery, and to an apparatus for reading from and/or writing to recording media using such arrangement. According to the invention, an arrangement for adaptive bit recovery including an adaptive equalizer (13) and an adaptive partial response maximum likelihood detector (14) further includes enhanced control measures for the adaptive equalizer (13) and/or the adaptive partial response maximum likelihood detector (14).
摘要:
Data detection capability is improved by whitening crosstalk noise from an equalization signal and detecting binary data. Each of a plurality of detection signals generated by using photoreceptor signals of a plurality of divided areas of an optical detection section is input to one of a plurality of adaptive equalizers, and outputs of the plurality of adaptive equalizers are computed to obtain an equalization signal for returning light at the time of shining of light onto bounds including a target track subject to data detection and adjacent tracks of an optical recording medium having a plurality of tracks formed thereon. Crosstalk noise from the adjacent tracks included in the equalization signal obtained by this multi-input adaptive equalization process is whitened first, followed by a binarization process. Also, an equalization error is found from an equalization target obtained based on a binary detection result and from the equalization signal obtained by the multi-input adaptive equalization process, and the equalization error is supplied to the plurality of adaptive equalizers as a control signal for adaptive equalization. Further, a whitening factor updating process is also performed to adaptively update a filter factor of a whitening filter.
摘要:
A system including a magnetic tape processing system that includes a read/write head to write to a top surface of a magnetic tape. The read/write head provides a write head field gradient of at least 40 Oersteds per nanometer at the top surface of the magnetic tape. The magnetic tape processing system and the read/write head provide a track density of greater than 8000 tracks per inch, a bit density of greater than 440 kilo-bits per inch, and an aspect ratio of less than 70.
摘要:
A reproduction signal evaluation method according to the present invention includes a step of generating a binary signal from an information recording medium on which a data sequence including marks and spaces in combination is recordable, using a PRML signal processing method from a signal obtained by reproducing the data sequence; and a differential calculation step of calculating a differential metric using a first state transition path having a maximum likelihood and a second state transition path having a second maximum likelihood, and a reproduction signal, the first state transition path and the second state transition path being obtained based on the binary signal. In a pattern including a shortest mark and a shortest space adjacent before or after the shortest mark, a shift amount of an edge of the shortest mark is obtained from a differential metric calculated regarding one of a first pattern in which a space adjacent to the shortest mark and not adjacent to the shortest space is longer than the shortest space; and a second pattern in which a mark adjacent to the shortest space and not adjacent to the shortest mark is longer than the shortest mark.
摘要:
When processing a two dimensional data area it is known to be advantageous to divide the two dimensional are into stripes and process each stripe using a stripe-wise detector. When using several iterations it is advantageous to use higher complexity detectors in later iterations and lower complexity detectors in the initial iterations.