摘要:
A method includes: producing a readback signal using a recording head positioned adjacent to a recording medium, amplitude demodulating the readback signal to produce an amplitude demodulated signal, frequency demodulating the readback signal to produce a frequency demodulated signal, and using the amplitude demodulated signal and the frequency demodulated signal to determine contact of the recording head with the recording medium. An apparatus that can be used to implement the method is also provided.
摘要:
Systems and techniques to select a framing and determine a waveform polarity of an encoded repeating pattern include, in at least one aspect, operations including: decoding an encoded repeating pattern using multiple framings of signal samples of a signal from a machine-readable medium; correlating the signal samples that indicate pattern transitions, for the multiple framings, with valid pattern transitions as defined by the encoding; accumulating the transition pattern correlations for the multiple framings; selecting one of the multiple framings as a correct framing for decoding based on the accumulated correlations; and determining a waveform polarity for the signal based on the repeating pattern and the selected correct framing.
摘要:
Systems and techniques to write servo patterns on machine-readable media. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: obtaining timing information from a spiral servo reference track on a machine-readable medium to determine head position, and generating a servo track with servo information based on the determined head position. Obtaining the timing information can involve determining a peak position of a diamond-shaped waveform and identifying occurrences of a timing-reference symbol in the spiral servo reference track. Moreover, identifying occurrences of the timing-reference symbol can involve decoding an encoded repeating pattern using multiple framings, correlating signal samples that indicate pattern transitions with valid pattern transitions as defined by the encoding, accumulating the transition pattern correlations for the multiple framings, selecting one of the multiple framings as a correct framing, and determining a waveform polarity for the signal.
摘要:
A method of determining frequency bands of a data storage system and an apparatus using the same are provided. More particularly, a method of determining frequencies used for reading and writing data from and to a disk drive while avoiding frequencies that have adverse effects on a system and a disk drive using the same are provided. A method of determining read and write frequencies of the data storage system may include determining frequencies that have adverse effects on functions of the data storage system; selecting frequencies to be used when reading and writing data to and from a disk drive while avoiding the frequencies determined to have adverse effects on the functions of the data storage system.
摘要:
Position information PosN and PosQ are compared and position information Pos1 and Pos2 in which influences of an error of a position sensitivity gain appear oppositely are calculated. Subsequently, a weight gain G1=M and a weight gain G2=(1−M) are obtained from the position information Pos1. A multiplication value obtained by multiplying the third position information Pos1 by the weight gain G1 and a multiplication value obtained by multiplying the fourth position information Pos2 by the weight gain G2 are added and synthesized, thereby calculating a decoded position.
摘要:
A signal trap device and method for trapping a desired FM signal out of a frequency multiplexed signal where a plurality of FM signals are included in a frequency multiplexed form. A replay signal reproduced from a video cassette tape is supplied directly to a subtracter while being fed to a fixed delay circuit and a variable delay circuit to be delayed therein by a predetermined delay time. The delayed signal is supplied also to the subtracter, which then subtracts the delayed signal from the reproduced replay signal and outputs the result of such subtraction therefrom. The delay time of the fixed delay circuit is set to correspond to the center frequency of the carrier of the desired FM signal to be trapped. Meanwhile the delay time of the variable delay circuit is so set as to correspond to the signal obtained by demodulating the desired FM signal. Thus, the desired FM signal can be trapped properly without any harmful influence on the other FM signal.
摘要:
In a demodulator for a digital FM signal, the received digital FM signal is verified at the data bit boundaries for inversion to detect errors. If an uninverted data bit boundary is detected, those sections of the digital FM signal just preceding and just following the uninverted data bit boundary are modified thereby generating two modified signals. Using the error detecting code included in the digital FM signal, the two modified signals are evaluated to determine which modification corrects the errors and the modified signal with the correct modification is selected.
摘要:
In a demodulator for a digital FM signal, the received digital FM signal is verified at the data bit boundaries for inversion to detect errors. If an uninverted data bit boundary is detected, those sections of the digital FM signal just preceding and just following the uninverted data bit boundary are modified thereby generating two modified signals. Using the error detecting code included in the digital FM signal, the two modified signals are evaluated to determine which modification corrects the errors and the modified signal with the correct modification is selected.
摘要:
A playback/recording modulating-demodulating device, having a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a voltage-current inverter (VCI), a band-pass filter, an amplitude limiter, and a phase-locked loop. In playback mode, the playback input signal is applied to the band-pass filter, the phase-locked loop is activated, and the VCI is set to produce a reference signal which controls the band-pass filter to tune the playback input signal. The tuned playback signal is applied to the amplitude limiter which produces an amplitude-limited signal which is applied to the phase-locked loop to produce a demodulated playback output signal. In record mode, the phase-locked loop is deactivated, the VCO produces a signal having a frequency which varies according to the voltage of a record input signal, and the VCI outputs a current control signal, having an output current related to the voltage of the record input signal, which is applied to the band-pass filter to control its bandwidth. A signal having a frequency value determined by the voltage of the record input signal is output by the VCO and applied to the band-pass filter, which outputs a record output signal. Thus, in the record mode, the bandwidth of the band-pass filter is related to the frequency of the signal which it filters.
摘要:
A recording-reproducing apparatus can remarkably relax the reproduction tracking accuracy by use of a head wider than the track width. The carrier signal frequency assigned to a recording track is designated to a synthesized signal generator. In compliance with this designation, the synthesized signal generator generates a signal of the designated frequency. This carrier signal is amplitude-modulated by the baseband signal to be recorded in a mixer. The unrequired frequency components are removed from this modulation signal by a bandpass filter, and the resulting signal is recorded in a recording medium by a head. The recording medium and the head are in relative motion. In read mode, a track is specified by the carrier signal.