• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.12
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• pp.1565-1571
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• 1995

Misalignment of recording head position results in inter-track interference (ITI), which is a primary factor limiting radial(track) density in current digital magnetic channels. This paper proposes a multi- channel adaptive PRML for digital high-density recording channels, and compares it with the conventional single-channel PRML in the presence of ITI for the per- formance evaluation. Simulation results show that the proposed method removes ITI effectively when heal-misalignment occurs, then improving its performance significantly as compared with the single- channel PRML. As a result, it is confirmed that multi-channel adaptive PRML is well suited for high-density recording in digital magnetic channels.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.2439-2450
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• 1997

As recording densities increase in digital magnetic recording channels, the performances of digital detection techniques such as PRML and DFE degrade significantly due to nonlinear distortion in recording channels. The primary impediments for hgih-density recording are generally classified as nonlinear transition shift, which can be reduced substantially by the precompensation technique, and partial erasure which usually requires sophisticated nonlinear equalization techniques. In order to acheieve the highest density recording, accurate estimation of the parameters associated with these two noninear distortions is crucial. In this paper, a new estimation technique to distinguish these two different nonlinear effect using a proposed adaptive algorithm in time domain is presented. The effectiveness of the proposed adaptive approach to identify uniquely the nonlinear parameter with bias is demonstrated by computer simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.6
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• pp.164-175
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• 1996

In this thesis, to cope with severe intersymbol interference and nonlinear distotions of the digital magnetic recording channel a neural decision feedback equalizer (NDFE) and an adaptive neural equalizer (NE) are applied. The digital magnetic recording channels with various recording densities and different types of the nonlinear distortions are considered. The computer simulation shows that as the nonlinear distortion is increased, the neural equalizers (NdFE, NE) have advantages of approximately 2-4 dB in signal to noise ratio (SNR) over the onventional eualizers to reach sme bit error rate and, a sthe recording density is increased, 1~5 dB of SNR improvement are also gained. Especially the NdFE gives a superior performance over the other equalizers when there is a severe nonlinear distortion in the digital magnetic channel.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.3
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• pp.133-141
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• 1996

As the recording density of digital magnetic recording channels increased, the nonlinear distortion caused by inadequate rise-times, demagnetizing field, and overwrite effect during the recording process becomes significant, resulting in limitation on the recording rate. In this paper, a new method for identifying the nonlinear distortion in hihg-density magnetic recording channel using and i.i.d. (independent, identically distributed) inut is described. The proposed method does not require the operatin of large-size matrix inversion which are necessary for the conventional method, and it enables us to estimate nonlinear parameters transition shifts, which can be used to compensate the nonlinear distortion, is demonstrated by computer simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.4C
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• pp.299-304
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• 2008

For perpendicular magnetic recording channels, it is hard to expect improving the performance by using the PRML or NPML. Hence, we exploit LDPC code to improve the performance. In this paper, we examine a single message-passing detector/decoder matched to the combination of a perpendicular magnetic recording channel detector and an LDPC code decoder. We examine the performance of channel iteration with joint LDPC code on perpendicular magnetic recording channel, and simplify the complexity of the message-passing detector algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.297-298
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• 2008

A new equalization method for perpendicular magnetic recording channels is proposed. The proposed equalizer incorporates the Gaussian sum approximation into a Kalman filtering framework to mitigate inter-symbol interference in perpendicular magnetic recording systems. The proposed equalizer consists of a bank of linear equalizers using the Kalman filtering algorithm and its output is obtained by combining the outputs of linear equalizers through the Gaussian sum approximation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.12C
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• pp.1177-1181
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• 2003

The modulation code with the limitation of consecutive transition length is a type of channel codes in high-density magnetic recording channel. When code sequence has two or less successive transitions, the detection performance of channel outputs can be improved. However, the code rate is reduced considerably. We present a rate 7/8 nut-length limited (RLL) code that consecutive transition length of each codeword is limited to 2 (j=2), and j is allowed to be 3 when codewords are connected. In addition, the consecutive zeros of the proposed code is limited to 7 (k=7).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1734-1745
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• 1996

In this paper, a modified fixed-delay tree search with decision feedback(FDTS/DF) for compensation of non-linear distortion in digital magnetic recording channels is discussed. Since the nonlinear distortion, which becomes significant as recording density increases, is generally well modeled by the discrete Volterra series, the proposed equlizer is composed of a nolinear feedforward filter, a linear feedback filter, and a nonlinear distorton table, the values of which are determined by considering the effect of nonlinear distortion due to future data as well as the previous and current one. At the decision stage of FDTS, a path minimizing the branch metric is chosen by using the previously detected values, current predicted value, and future predicted value. We compare the performance of the linear FDTS/DF, the previous nonlinear FDTS/DF, and the proposed nonlinear FDTS/DF by computer simulation, and confirm that the proposed one chieves the best performance at high-density recording.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.11
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• pp.83-96
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• 1996

On PR-IV magnetic recording systems, the maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD) method is optimum. But it has the problem of the complexity of the structure. The three level detection (TLD) method can be used, which has simpler structure than MLSD, but requires almost twice of power to achieve the same probbility of error as MLSD does. Therefore a new detection method (error controlled detection: ECD) is proposed which has much simpler structure than MLSD and gives much better performance than TLD. The simulation resutls show that the performance of ECD is better than that of TLD by approximaterly 0.5~1.3dB both in linear and nonlinear channels.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.3C
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• pp.59-63
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• 2005

We propose non-DC-free generalized PRML (GPRML) that are suppressed DC contents for matching to the response of perpendicular magnetic recording channel with a ring-head. In addition, DC-free encoding is considered to prevent low-frequency disturbances. The SNR performance is obtained by combining the various PRML channels with DC-free and non-DC-free codes during the normalized recording density increases from 2.5 to 3.5. The GPRML detections without using DC-free code get SNR gains more than 1dB compared to the conventional PRML systems at 10/sup -5/BER. We confirmed that the rate 127/136 DC-free coded GPRML systems show good performances compared with the 16/17 non-DC-free coded GPRML systems. In results, DC-free coded GPRML detections get gains about 1.4dB and 2.0dB at the density of 3.3 and 3.5, respectively.