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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1997
Lisa Fredrickson, Ojai, CA (US);
Seagate Technolgy, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Signals indicative of unencoded input data are encoded into a plurality of encoded sequences. A first subset of the plurality of encoded sequences are encoded according to a k constrained code of rate x/y and a second subset of the plurality of unencoded sequences are encoded according to a k constrained code of rate m/n wherein x/y≠m/n. The encoded sequences are transmitted to a partial response channel subject to noise. The encoded sequences are transmitted from the channel to a Viterbi detector having a trellis structure with a preselected, time-dependent pattern to create a time varying trellis structure for limiting a maximum length of parallel paths therethrough. The encoded sequences are detected with a Viterbi detector to provide detected, encoded sequences. The detected, encoded sequences are then decoded to provide an estimate of the input data.