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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1994
David A Freitas, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Shih-Ming Shih, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A servo signal demodulator for a banded data disk drive system includes a single data sampling clock for both the data channel sampling and the servo data sampling. The demodulator includes an analog-to-digital converter that receives a readback signal from a read/write head of the disk drive system and generates samples of the readback signal in accordance with a repeating sampling clock signal whose frequency changes as a function of a data band of the disk drive over which the read/write head is positioned, an adder that sums the readback signal samples from the analog-to-digital converter to thereby produce an integrated readback signal value, and a servo signal decoder circuit that latches the adder sum to a register after the adder has summed a sufficient number of readback signal samples to comprise a servo burst, in accordance with a data channel sampling clock signal, and provides demodulated signal information to a servo controller.