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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lisa Fredrickson, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for synchronizing a Viterbi detector to data frames corresponding to code words read from of a medium is provided. A timing pattern and a synchronization pattern is provided, the detector is synchronized to the synchronization pattern based upon the timing pattern, the detector is further synchronized to the data frame based upon the synchronization pattern