Seagate Technology Incorporated

Gina R Danner

Jon David Trantham

Mark Alan Heath

Evgeny J Berzon

An embedded system with reduced susceptibility to single event upset effects. The system includes an instruction memory that can store at least one instruction set. The instruction memory utilizes a parity checking error-detection scheme. The system also includes a non-volatile memory that can store a copy of the at least one instruction set, and a data memory that can store at least one data sequence. The data memory utilizes an error correction coding (ECC) scheme. A controller, which is responsive to the instruction memory, the non-volatile memory, and the data memory, replaces the at least one instruction set in the instruction memory with the copy of the at least one instruction set from the non-volatile memory, if a parity error is detected in connection with the at least one instruction set in the instruction memory. The controller also operates in conjunction with the data memory to implement the ECC scheme.

Embedded system with reduced susceptibility to single event upset effects

A data storage system has a rotatable magnetic disc with a plurality of concentric tracks. The system also has read/write circuitry for writing data to the tracks and reading data from the tracks at various frequencies and for pre-compensating the data written to the tracks to compensate for intersymbol interference. Frequency zones are established for the tracks by preliminarily assigning each track to one of a plurality of frequency zones. The pre-compensation is adjusted based on the intersymbol interference which occurs using the preliminary assignment of the tracks to the frequency zones. Data is then written to the tracks and the window margins for the data are tested to see if they meet a threshold window margin. If the window margins do not meet the threshold window margin, the assignment of the tracks to the frequency zones is adjusted and the pre-compensation is also adjusted.

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Gina R Danner