Performance evaluation of the disk drive industry's second-generation partial response maximum likelihood data channel

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 4005-4008

  Kerwin, G J ^a   Galbraith, R L ^a   Coker, J D ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; EVALUATION; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DATA CHANNEL; MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE; PARTIAL RESPONSE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (PRML);

RECORDING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0027701365     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.281371     Document Type: Article

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