Signal Processing Technologies for High-Density Digital Magnetic Recording

Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part II: Electronics (English translation of Denshi Tsushin Gakkai Ronbunshi)

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 25-45

  Osawa, Hisashi ^a   Okamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Saito, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital magnetic recording; PRML system; Signal processing method for vertical magnetic recording; Signal processing methods responsive to nonlinear distortion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347810118     PISSN: 8756663X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6432(199906)82:6<25::aid-ecjb4>3.0.co;2-0     Document Type: Article

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