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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Lsi Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 5/012 (2006.01); G11B 20/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2013.01); G11B 5/012 (2013.01); G11B 20/1833 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage system includes a storage medium operable to maintain a data set, a read/write head assembly operable to write the data set to the storage medium and to read the data set from the storage medium, a multi-level encoder operable to encode the data set at a plurality of different code rates before it is written to the storage medium, and a multi-level decoder operable to decode the data set retrieved from the storage medium and to apply decoded values encoded at a lower code rate when decoding values encoded at a higher code rate.