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The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for performing loop feedback in a data processing system.
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The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for detecting patterns in a data stream.
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Systems, methods, devices, circuits for data processing, and more particularly to data processing including operational marginalization capability.
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Systems and methods for magnetoresistive asymmetry estimation may include, but are not limited to, operations for: receiving a magnetic read head transducer output; computing a mean value of the magnetic read head transducer output; computing a median value of the magnetic read head transducer output; and applying a correction coefficient to a magnetic read head detector input according to at least the mean value of the magnetic read head transducer output and the median value of the magnetic read head transducer output.
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An apparatus for calibrating a noise predictive filter includes a noise-predictive filter operable to filter digital data samples to yield filtered data samples, a calibration circuit operable to calculate tap coefficients for the noise-predictive filter based at least in part on the digital data samples, and a gating circuit operable to select a portion of the digital data samples for use by the calibration circuit in calculating the tap coefficients.
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A servo system includes an equalizer circuit operable to filter digital servo data samples according to filter tap coefficients to yield equalized data, a detector circuit operable to apply a data detection algorithm to the equalized data to yield hard decisions, a convolution circuit operable to yield ideal digital data based on the hard decisions and on target values, a subtraction circuit operable to subtract the ideal digital data from the equalized data to yield an adaptation error signal, an error gradient calculator operable calculate an error gradient signal based at least in part on the adaptation error signal, and a tap adaptation circuit operable to calculate values of the filter tap coefficients based on the error gradient signal.
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A data processing system includes a number of analog to digital converters operable to sample analog signals obtained from a magnetic storage medium to yield digital signals, multiple sync mark detectors operable to search for a number of different sync marks in the digital signals, and a sync mark detector output comparator operable to compare an output of each of the sync mark detectors to identify detection errors.
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Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for recovering data from a solid state memory.
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An apparatus for detecting media flaws includes a branch metric selection circuit operable to select a first branch metric and a second branch metric, a subtraction circuit operable to subtract the second branch metric from the first branch metric to yield a difference, and a comparator operable to compare the difference with a threshold value and to indicate a presence of a potential flaw in a storage medium when the difference is less than the threshold value.