Apparatus and method for reading from and writing to a magnetic recording medium
US5163003A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 27, 1990 |
| Grant date | Nov 10, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 27, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B20/1426
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data reproducing circuit, and more particularly, a data reproducing circuit which records magnetization reversal patterns corresponding to a written digital signal onto a magnetic recording medium, and converts a received analog signal from the magnetic recording medium into a digital signal. The present invention has a pre-shift circuit to perform peak shift compensation in the recording process, an equalizer to perform peak shift compensation in the reproducing process, and a digital data reproducing circuit to reproduce data by differentiating the equalized signal received from the equalizer and generating a window signal. The equalizer means contains the first equalizer which compensates the peak position shifting in the received analog signal from the magnetic head and outputs the equalized signal used for differentiation, and the second equalizer which corrects the peak level variation of the analog signal and outputs the equalized signal used for window signal generation. Use of these equalizers with the pre-shift circuit assures margins for noises in the reproducing process along with a sufficient peak shift compensation.
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