Patent ID: 8693121

Claim:
A system for oversampling a signal captured from a magnetic storage medium, the signal representative of information stored by the magnetic storage medium, the system comprising: a processor configured to designate a first sampling phase for the signal and a second sampling phase for the signal; and a memory configured to store the first sampling phase and the second sampling phase, the memory having computer executable instructions stored thereon, the computer executable instructions configured for execution by the processor to: initiate capture of a first waveform associated with the signal at the first sampling phase, initiate capture of a second waveform associated with the signal at the second sampling phase, and interleave the first waveform and the second waveform to form an oversampled waveform, wherein the first waveform and the second waveform are captured at a rate at least substantially equal to a rate at which the information stored by the magnetic storage medium was written to the magnetic storage medium.