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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
William G. Bliss, Thornton, CO (US);
James W. Rae, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for adding errors to magnetic data and then detecting the errors is revealed. The method includes providing a magnetic recording channel, reading and digitizing a stored signal, introducing an error signal that emulates off-track interference, adding the error to the digitized signal, and determining an error rate. The apparatus includes a magnetic recording channel having a linear feedback shift register to generate a pseudo-random binary sequence, circuitry to convert the sequence into an error signal, and a Viterbi detector to quantify an error rate.