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    • 3. 发明授权
    • Disk storage system employing error detection and correction of channel
coded data, interpolated timing recovery, and retroactive/split-segment
symbol synchronization
    • 磁盘存储系统采用通道编码数据的错误检测和校正,内插定时恢复和追溯/分段符号同步
    • US6009549A
    • 1999-12-28
    • US856885
    • 1997-05-15
    • William G. BlissChristopher P. ZookRichard T. Behrens
    • William G. BlissChristopher P. ZookRichard T. Behrens
    • G11B5/012G11B20/10G11B20/14G11B20/18G11B27/30C11C29/00G11B5/09
    • G11B20/10055G11B20/10009G11B20/1426G11B20/1833G11B27/3027G11B2020/1476G11B5/012
    • A disk storage system is disclosed wherein user data received from a host system is first encoded according to a first channel code having a high code rate, and then encoded according to an ECC code, such as a Reed-Solomon code, wherein the ECC redundancy symbols are encoded according to a second channel code having low error propagation. In the preferred embodiment, the first channel code is a RLL (d,k) code having a long k constraint which allows for longer block lengths (and higher code rates). During read back, a synchronous read channel samples the analog read signal a synchronously and interpolates the asynchronous sample values to generate sample values substantially synchronized to the baud rate. In contrast to conventional synchronous-sampling timing recovery, interpolated timing recovery can tolerate a longer RLL k constraint because it is less sensitive to noise in the read signal and not affected by process variations in fabrication. Additionally, a trellis sequence detector detects an estimated binary sequence from the synchronous sample values, wherein a state transition diagram of the trellis detector is configured according to the code constraints of the first and second channel codes. The estimated binary sequence output by the sequence detector is buffered in a data buffer to facilitate the error detection and correction process, and to allow for retroactive and split-segment symbol synchronization using multiple sync marks.
    • 公开了一种磁盘存储系统,其中根据具有高码率的第一信道码首先对从主机系统接收的用户数据进行编码,然后根据诸如Reed-Solomon码的ECC码进行编码,其中ECC冗余 符号根据具有低误差传播的第二信道码进行编码。 在优选实施例中,第一信道码是具有长k约束的RLL(d,k)码,其允许更长的码块长度(和较高码率)。 在读回期间,同步读通道同步地对模拟读取信号进行采样,并内插异步采样值,以生成基本上与波特率同步的采样值。 与传统的同步采样定时恢复相比,内插定时恢复可以容忍较长的RLL k约束,因为它对读取信号中的噪声不太敏感,并且不受制造过程变化的影响。 另外,网格序列检测器根据同步采样值检测估计的二进制序列,其中根据第一和第二信道码的编码约束配置网格检测器的状态转移图。 由序列检测器输出的估计的二进制序列被缓冲在数据缓冲器中,以便于错误检测和校正过程,并允许使用多个同步标记进行追溯和分段符号同步。
    • 4. 发明授权
    • Filtering a read signal to attenuate secondary pulses caused by pole
tips of a thin film magnetic read head
    • 滤除读取信号以衰减由薄膜磁头读取头的极尖引起的次脉冲
    • US5623377A
    • 1997-04-22
    • US222666
    • 1994-04-04
    • Richard T. BehrensNeal GloverTrent O. DudleyAlan J. ArmstrongChristopher P. ZookWilliam G. Bliss
    • Richard T. BehrensNeal GloverTrent O. DudleyAlan J. ArmstrongChristopher P. ZookWilliam G. Bliss
    • G11B5/09G11B20/10H03H17/02H03H17/06H04B3/06G11B5/035
    • H03H17/06G11B20/10009G11B5/09H03H17/02
    • A filter for compensating discrete secondary pulse formations associated with a data stream of discrete main pulses produced from data read from magnetic media. The filter's impulse response comprises a center coefficient with side compensating coefficients for attenuating the secondary pulses when the input signal is convolved with the impulse response. The magnitude and delay of the compensation coefficients are programmable and are adaptively adjusted to optimize the impulse response for a given environment. In a traditional FIR embodiment, two delay lines are used to generate the two programmable delays between the center coefficient and side compensation coefficients. In the preferred embodiment, an IIR filter provides the two programmable delays using only one delay line thereby reducing the size and cost of the circuit. Also in the preferred embodiment, the data stream is interleaved into an even and odd data stream and processed in parallel by two filters in order to double the throughput. Further, the pre-cursor correcting portion of the filter can be disabled in order to avoid delaying the data stream while still canceling the post-cursor secondary pulses. The filter also comprises attenuation and adder means to match the coincident sample values in amplitude and add them to substantially eliminate the effect of the secondary pulses in the discrete data stream.
    • 用于补偿与从磁介质读取的数据产生的离散主脉冲的数据流相关联的离散次级脉冲形成的滤波器。 滤波器的脉冲响应包括具有侧补偿系数的中心系数,用于当输入信号与脉冲响应卷积时衰减次级脉冲。 补偿系数的幅度和延迟可编程,并进行自适应调整,以优化给定环境的脉冲响应。 在传统的FIR实施例中,使用两条延迟线来产生中心系数和侧面补偿系数之间的两个可编程延迟。 在优选实施例中,IIR滤波器仅使用一个延迟线提供两个可编程延迟,从而减小电路的尺寸和成本。 同样在优选实施例中,数据流被交织成偶数和奇数数据流,并且由两个滤波器并行处理,以使吞吐量翻倍。 此外,可以禁用滤波器的前光标校正部分,以避免在仍然取消后光标次级脉冲的同时延迟数据流。 滤波器还包括衰减和加法器装置,以使幅度上重合的采样值相匹配,并将它们相加,以基本上消除离散数据流中次级脉冲的影响。
    • 6. 发明授权
    • Fault tolerant sync mark detector enabled relative to a frequency of an
acquisition preamble for sampled amplitude recording
    • 容错同步标记检测器相对于采样幅度记录的采集前导码的频率启用
    • US5729396A
    • 1998-03-17
    • US440268
    • 1995-05-12
    • Trent O. DudleyRichard T. BehrensChristopher P. Zook
    • Trent O. DudleyRichard T. BehrensChristopher P. Zook
    • G11B5/012G11B20/10G11B20/14G11B27/30G11B5/09
    • G11B20/10055G11B20/10009G11B20/10037G11B20/1403G11B27/30G11B27/3027G11B5/012G11B2020/1476
    • A sampled amplitude read channel reads data from a magnetic medium by detecting digital data from a sequence of discrete time sample values generated by sampling an analog read signal from a read head positioned over the magnetic medium. The digital data comprises a preamble field followed by a sync mark followed by a data field. Timing recovery in the read channel synchronizes to a phase and frequency of the preamble field and a sync detector detects the sync mark in order to frame operation of an RLL decoder for decoding the detected data field. To decrease the probability of early misdetection, the sync mark is chosen to have minimum correlation with shifted versions of the sync mark concatenated with the preamble field. To further increase the fault tolerance, the sync mark detector is enabled by timing recovery relative to the end of the preamble field. A state machine in timing recovery generates expected sample values used to acquire the preamble field, and a current state of the state machine indicates when the preamble ends relative to a predetermined clock interval. In this manner, the search for an appropriate sync mark need only look for minimum correlation during shifts at the predetermined clock interval, thereby increasing the fault tolerant characteristic of the sync mark.
    • 采样幅度读取通道从通过从位于磁性介质上的读取头采样模拟读取信号而产生的离散时间采样值的序列中检测数字数据,从磁性介质读取数据。 数字数据包括前同步码字段,随后是同步标记,后跟数据字段。 读通道中的定时恢复与前同步码字段的相位和频率同步,并且同步检测器检测同步标记,以便对RLL解码器进行帧操作,以对检测到的数据字段进行解码。 为了降低早期错误检测的可能性,选择同步标记与与前同步码字段连接的同步标记的移位版本具有最小相关性。 为了进一步增加容错能力,同步标记检测器通过相对于前同步码字段结束的定时恢复来启用。 定时恢复中的状态机产生用于获取前导字段的预期采样值,并且状态机的当前状态指示前导码相对于预定时钟间隔何时结束。 以这种方式,搜索适当的同步标记仅需要在预定时钟间隔期间寻找在移位期间的最小相关性,从而增加同步标记的容错特性。
    • 7. 发明授权
    • Servo decoder for decoding an error correcting servo code recorded on a
disc storage medium
    • 伺服解码器,用于解码记录在盘存储介质上的纠错伺服码
    • US6005727A
    • 1999-12-21
    • US790038
    • 1997-01-28
    • Richard T. BehrensChristopher P. ZookDavid E. ReedStephen A. Turk
    • Richard T. BehrensChristopher P. ZookDavid E. ReedStephen A. Turk
    • G11B5/55G11B5/596G11B7/007G11B21/08G11B21/10G11B27/30G11B5/09
    • G11B7/00745G11B21/083G11B21/106G11B27/3027G11B5/553G11B5/59655G11B5/59688G11B5/5547
    • A servo decoder is disclosed for disc storage systems that operates according to a novel coding scheme capable of accurately decoding detected codewords representing servo track address during seek operations, even when the recording head flies between two adjacent tracks, and capable of correcting errors in the detected codedwords caused by noise in the read signal, such as inter-symbol interference. In a first embodiment, the coding scheme comprises an error correcting code (ECC) capable of correcting a predetermined number of bit errors in the detected codewords. To achieve the equivalent effect of a conventional Gray code, the codewords are arranged such that adjacent track addresses differ by a number of bits equal to the minimum distance of the ECC code. In a second embodiment, the servo code corrects certain minimum distance error events associated with a trellis type sequence detector. To achieve the equivalent effect of a conventional Gray code in this embodiment, the codewords are arranged such that adjacent track addresses differ by a number of bits relative to the minimum distance error events corrected. In this manner, when the recording head spans two adjacent tracks during a seek operation, the ambiguity in the detected codeword will be resolved in favor of one of the adjacent track addresses. Further, due to the error correcting capabilities of the code, the present invention improves the performance of servo seeking and tracking operations, and allows the servo data to be recorded at a higher density.
    • 公开了一种用于盘存储系统的伺服解码器,该盘存储系统根据能够在搜索操作期间精确地解码表示伺服轨迹地址的检测码字的新型编码方案进行操作,即使当记录头在两个相邻的轨道之间飞行时,也能够校正检测到的错误 读取信号中由噪声引起的编码字,如符号间干扰。 在第一实施例中,编码方案包括能够校正检测码字中预定数量的位错误的纠错码(ECC)。 为了实现常规格雷码的等效效果,码字被布置成使得相邻轨道地址与等于ECC码的最小距离的位数相差。 在第二实施例中,伺服代码校正与网格型序列检测器相关联的某些最小距离误差事件。 为了实现本实施例中常规格雷码的等效效果,码字被布置成使得相邻轨道地址相对于校正的最小距离误差事件相差多个位。 以这种方式,当在搜索操作期间记录头跨越两个相邻轨道时,检测到的码字中的模糊度将被解析为有利于相邻轨道地址之一。 此外,由于代码的纠错能力,本发明提高了伺服寻找和跟踪操作的性能,并允许以更高的密度记录伺服数据。
    • 8. 发明授权
    • Channel quality circuit in a sampled amplitude read channel
    • 通道质量电路采样振幅读通道
    • US5987634A
    • 1999-11-16
    • US897339
    • 1997-07-21
    • Richard T. BehrensWilliam G. BlissWilliam R. Foland, Jr.
    • Richard T. BehrensWilliam G. BlissWilliam R. Foland, Jr.
    • G11B20/10G11C29/00
    • G11B20/10055G11B20/10009G11B20/10037
    • A channel quality circuit, incorporated within a sampled amplitude read channel utilized in a magnetic storage system, for processing and accumulating performance data from the individual read channel components, wherein the performance data is used to calibrate the read channel to operate in a particular environment, to estimate the bit error rate of the storage system, and to detect defects in the magnetic medium. The channel quality circuit generates a test pattern of digital data which is written to the storage system. Then, as the test pattern is read from the storage system, the channel quality circuit accumulates performance data from the read channel components. The test pattern is used to generate expected samples and expected sample errors relative to the samples read by the read channel. Gating logic is programmed to accumulate only the particular performance data of interest. The channel quality circuit computes auto and cross-correlations, squared errors, and threshold comparisons. A defect detection filter detects particular defects in the media. In order to predict the bit error rate of the storage system, the channel quality circuit accumulates noise auto-correlation data, confidence metrics from a sequence detector, and cross-correlation of expected sample errors with actual sample errors.
    • 一种信道质量电路,其被并入在磁存储系统中使用的采样幅度读取信道中,用于处理和累积来自各个读取信道分量的性能数据,其中,所述性能数据用于校准所述读取信道以在特定环境中操作, 估计存储系统的误码率,并检测磁介质中的缺陷。 信道质量电路产生写入存储系统的数字数据的测试模式。 然后,当从存储系统读取测试图案时,信道质量电路从读取的信道分量累积性能数据。 测试模式用于产生相对于读通道读取的样本的预期样本和预期样本误差。 门控逻辑被编程为仅累积感兴趣的特定性能数据。 信道质量电路计算自动和互相关,平方误差和阈值比较。 缺陷检测滤波器检测介质中的特定缺陷。 为了预测存储系统的误码率,信道质量电路将噪声自相关数据,序列检测器的置信度量度以及预期样本误差与实际样本误差的互相关累积。
    • 9. 发明授权
    • Method and apparatus for calibrating an analog filter in a sampled
amplitude read channel
    • 用于校准采样振幅读通道中的模拟滤波器的方法和装置
    • US5903857A
    • 1999-05-11
    • US751832
    • 1996-11-18
    • Richard T. BehrensTyson TuttleKent D. AndersonTrent O. DudleyWilliam G. Bliss
    • Richard T. BehrensTyson TuttleKent D. AndersonTrent O. DudleyWilliam G. Bliss
    • G11B20/10G06F17/10G11B5/035
    • G11B20/10055G11B20/10009G11B20/10037G11B20/10481
    • A method and apparatus for calibrating an analog equalizer in a sampled amplitude read channel is disclosed wherein the filter's frequency response is measured and calibrated directly. This is accomplished by injecting a known periodic signal into the analog filter and measuring a spectrum value at a predetermined frequency. The filter parameters are adjusted accordingly until the spectrum reaches a predetermined target value. In the preferred embodiment, the analog filter comprises at least one second order low pass filter (referred to as a biquad filter), and the filter's spectrum is adjusted relative to the well known parameters f.sub.o and Q. Specifically, the parameters f.sub.o and Q are optimized relative to a power measurement at predetermined harmonics of the input signal. In this manner, the present invention enables auto-calibration of the analog equalizer without reading any data from the disc. Furthermore, the calibration process can be executed during the storage system's normal operation without significantly degrading its overall performance.
    • 公开了一种用于校准采样振幅读通道中的模拟均衡器的方法和装置,其中滤波器的频率响应被直接测量和校准。 这是通过将已知的周期信号注入模拟滤波器并以预定频率测量频谱值来实现的。 相应地调整滤波器参数,直到频谱达到预定的目标值。 在优选实施例中,模拟滤波器包括至少一个二阶低通滤波器(称为双二阶滤波器),并且相对于众所周知的参数fo和Q调节滤波器的频谱。具体地,参数fo和Q是 相对于输入信号的预定谐波处的功率测量而优化。 以这种方式,本发明能够在不从盘读取任何数据的情况下自动校准模拟均衡器。 此外,可以在存储系统的正常操作期间执行校准过程,而不会显着降低其整体性能。
    • 10. 发明授权
    • Sub-sampled discrete time read channel for computer storage systems
    • 用于计算机存储系统的子采样离散时间读通道
    • US5802118A
    • 1998-09-01
    • US681578
    • 1996-07-29
    • William G. BlissDavid E. ReedRichard T. Behrens
    • William G. BlissDavid E. ReedRichard T. Behrens
    • G11B20/10G11B20/14H04B1/10
    • G11B20/10055G11B20/10009G11B20/10037G11B20/1426
    • A sampled amplitude read channel is disclosed for reading binary data from a computer disk storage system, wherein the read channel sub-samples an analog read signal at a rate lower than the baud rate and detects the binary data from the sub-sampled values using a sequence detector. In one embodiment, the sub-sampled values are interpolated to generate synchronous sample values which are processed by a conventional sequence detector. In another embodiment, the sequence detector is modified to detect the binary data directly from the sub-sampled values. In yet another embodiment, the sequence detector comprises a remodulator and an error pattern detector for detecting and correcting bit errors in the detected binary data. In addition, for the various embodiments a channel code increases the distance property of the sequence detector in order to compensate for the degradation in performance caused by sub-sampling.
    • 公开了一种用于从计算机磁盘存储系统读取二进制数据的采样幅度读取通道,其中读取通道以低于波特率的速率对模拟读取信号进行子采样,并使用以下方式从子采样值检测二进制数据: 序列检测器。 在一个实施例中,子采样值被内插以产生由常规序列检测器处理的同步采样值。 在另一个实施例中,修改序列检测器以直接从子采样值检测二进制数据。 在另一个实施例中,序列检测器包括重调制器和用于检测和校正检测到的二进制数据中的比特错误的错误模式检测器。 此外,对于各种实施例,信道码增加了序列检测器的距离特性,以便补偿由次采样引起的性能下降。