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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2008
Applicant:
Parviz Rahgozar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Parviz Rahgozar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus that includes a circuit that generates control information that controls a height of a read head of a disk drive. The circuit comprises a filter circuit and a detector circuit. The filter circuit receives a read channel signal from the read head and generates a filtered signal. The filtered signal ranges between 1.0 kHz and 500 kHz. The detector circuit receives the filtered signal and generates the control information when the filtered signal exceeds a defined threshold.