Patent ID: 9557385
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G01R,G11B,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer program product for performing symbol timing recovery in a parallel recording channel system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to: receive, by the processor, a plurality of timing-error estimates for a plurality of read channels, each of the timing-error estimates corresponding to one of the read channels; calculate, by the processor, a common phase based on the plurality of timing-error estimates; calculate, by the processor, a skew of a transducer array based on the plurality of timing-error estimates; and calculate, by the processor, a different total phase estimate for each read channel based on the calculated common phase and the calculated skew of the transducer array.