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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2006
Fuminori Sai, Odawara, JP;
Yasuhiro Takase, Odawara, JP;
Christopher Taylor, Rochester, MN (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention enables storing in a memory, multi-bit data corresponding to analog signals read from a medium before being converted to single-bit data as recorded data. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AD converter is configured to convert analog signals from a magnetic disk to multi-bit data. A buffer circuit holds successively multi-bit data transferred from the AD converter toward a Viterbi decoder, and outputs the held plural multi-bit data in parallel. A SRAM for ECC is used for storing multi-bit data transferred from the buffer circuit.