A Soft Error Rate Model for Predicting Off-Track Performance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 820-829

  Vea, Mathew P ^a   Howell, Thomas D ^b  

^a Quantum Corporation   (United States)

^b MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OFF TRACK PERFORMANCE; SIXTH INPUT PARAMETER; SOFT ERROR RATE; TRACK DENSITY; TRACK MISREGISTRATION;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0029208628     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364590     Document Type: Article

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