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Methods and devices for joint two-dimensional self-iterating equalization and detection

US8760782B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 24, 2012
Grant dateJun 24, 2014
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Expiry dateApr 5, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2025/03777
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A disk drive is configured to decode data written over a plurality of data tracks using joint self-iterating soft equalization and an iterative turbo 2-D MAP-based detection, by performing soft self-iterating linear 2-D MMSE equalization on received input samples; computing MMSE estimates for coefficients of a 2-D equalization filter based on a-priori values, mean of the a-priori values, the 2-D filter and the received input samples; updating the coefficients of the 2-D filter using a variance based on the a-priori values when carrying out a first iteration and based on an extrinsic LLR when carrying out subsequent iterations; determining values of the individual bits in the input samples using the updated coefficients; computing an output LLR of each individual received sample based on the computed MMSE estimate, the mean and the variance, and computing the extrinsic LLR by subtracting a priori LLR from the output LLR.

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