A Window-Margin-Like Procedure for Evaluating PRML Channel Performance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 1109-1114

  Perkins, Tim ^a   Keirn, Zachary A ^b  

^a Applied Magnetics Corporation   (United States)

^b MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING ERRORS; DEMODULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC HEADS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TRELLIS CODES;

BIT SHIFT ERRORS; PARTIAL RESPONSE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD (PRML) READ CHANNELS; PEAK DETECTION CHANNELS; SEQUENCE AMPLITUDE MARGIN (SAM); TIMING WINDOW MARGIN ANALYSIS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0029276023     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364793     Document Type: Article

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