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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
An electronic device for driving an actuator device for a hard disk and a motor for turning the hard disk, the device having a first driving circuit connected to the rotation motor and integrated in a chip of semiconductor material having a substrate defining a reference-potential region, a second driving circuit integrated in the chip and connected to a first actuation stage of the actuator device, and a third driving circuit integrated in the chip and connected to a second actuation stage of the actuator device. The actuator device supports a read/write transducer of the hard disk. The first actuation stage performs a rough displacement of the read/write transducer, while the second actuation stage performs a finer displacement of the same read/write transducer.