Patent Application: US-82979692-A

Abstract:
apparatus and methods are provided for encoding a predefined number of bits of binary data into codewords having a predefined number of bits for a partial - response maximum - liklihood data channel in a direct access storage device . rate 8 / 9 block codes having maximum ones and run length constraints and provide timing and gain control and reduced susceptibility to misequalization effects in prml channels .

Description:
referring now to fig . i , there is shown a block diagram of a partial - response maximum - likelihood ( prml ) recording channel 10 in a direct access storage device for carrying out the coding methods of the invention . data to be written is applied to an encoder 12 . encoder 12 produces coded data or codewords which serve as an input to a class - iv partial - response ( pr ) channel 14 described by a ( 1 - d 2 ) operation . a channel output is generated by the channel 14 and detected at the channel output by a viterbi detector 16 coupled to a decoder 18 to complete the maximum - likelihood ( ml ) detection process for data readback . the pr class - iv channel transfer function ( 1 - d 2 ) is equivalent to two independent interleaved dicode channels each displaying a transfer function described by ( 1 - d ) where d represents one interleaved sample delay . customer data input stream is applied to the encoder 12 and encoded . odd and even sequences of channel output are detected by viterbi detector 16 and applied to the decoder 18 . the decoder 18 then generates the channel input data . rate 8 / 9 block codes particularly suitable for magnetic recording are provided for use in the prml channel 10 . with the rate 8 / 9 code , a 9 - bit encoded block or codeword is generated for every 8 - bit data byte of data input . proper operation of the viterbi detector 16 requires a coding constraint of io ≦ pm , where io represents the maximum number of adjacent zeroes within all - even or all - odd sequences and pm equals the interleaved length of the path memory for the viterbi detector 16 . run length limited ( rll ) constraints for the rate 8 / 9 block codes are identified using a ( d , go , io , g1 ) notation . the d specifies the minimum number of adjacent zeroes and go specifies the maximum number of adjacent zeroes or maximum run length of zeroes in the channel output code bit sequence . g1 specifies the maximum number of adjacent ones or maximum run length of ones in the channel output code bit sequence . two codes of the invention include run length limited constraints ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞), respectively and each code maximizes the number of ones within all 256 9 - bit codewords for the given io constraint . table i and table ii provide codeword assignment tables for the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞) prml modulation codes of the invention . both rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞) codes maximizes the number of ones with each 9 - bit codeword including at least 5 ones or in other words no more than 4 zeroes . for the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 6 , ∞) code , three having only 4 ones are substituted for codewords as follows in order to obtain the lower io constraint : ______________________________________ ( 0 , 8 , 12 , ∞) → ( 0 , 8 , 6 , ∞) 010101011 → 000111100110101010 → 001111000101010101 → 001101100______________________________________ both rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞) codes have the property of read backward symmetry . also both rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞) codes provide an all ones codeword corresponding to an all ones 8 - bit data byte used for the sync pattern . referring to fig2 there is shown a schematic diagram representation of an encoder generally designated 12a for implementing the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) code . encoder 12a includes an 8 - bit binary data byte input denoted x and assigned 9 - bit codeword denoted y , defined by : an intermediate variable denoted m is given by the following : ## equ1 ## an add the x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 , x5 , x6 , x7 , x8 inputs and compare with 4 function is provided by full - adder blocks 20 , 22 , 24 , 26 , carry - generator 28 , and gate 30 and or - gate 32 for providing the intermediate variable m . m is set equal to zero when the sum of the x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 , x5 , x6 , x7 , x8 inputs is less than 4 . otherwise m is set equal to one when the sum is greater than or equal to 4 . the codeword outputs y1 , y2 , y3 , y4 , y5 , y6 , y7 , y8 , y9 are given by the following : ## equ2 ## the x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 , x5 , x6 , x7 , x8 inputs and the intermediate variable m are received by a plurality of exclusive - nor ( xnor ) gates 34 , 36 , 38 , 40 , 42 , 44 , 46 and 48 for providing the y1 , y2 , y3 , y4 , y6 , y7 , y8 , y9 encoder outputs the intermediate variable m provides the y5 encoder output . fig3 illustrates a decoder implementation for the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 , ∞) code generally designated 18a . decoded data outputs , denoted z , defined by : the decoded data outputs z1 , z2 , z3 , z4 , z5 , z6 , z7 , z8 are given by the following : ## equ3 ## the decoder inputs y1 , y2 , y3 , y4 , y6 , y7 , y8 , y9 and the y5 input are received by a plurality of exclusive - nor ( xnor ) gates 70 , 72 , 74 , 76 , 78 , 80 , 82 and 84 for providing the decoder data outputs z1 , z2 , z3 , z4 , z5 , z6 , z7 , z8 . referring to fig4 there is shown a schematic diagram representation of an encoder implementation generally designated 12b for the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 6 , ∞) code . encoder 12b receives the 8 - bit binary data byte input x and produces the intermediate variable m provided by gates 90 , 92 , 94 , 96 , 98 , 100 and 102 an intermediate variable n is defined by : ## equ4 ## the codeword outputs y1 , y2 , y3 , y4 , y5 , y6 , y7 , y8 , y9 are given by the following structures : ## equ5 ## the intermediate variable n is produced by a nor gate 104 receiving the x1 and x8 inputs , a nand gate 106 receiving the x3 and x6 inputs and a 6 - wide nor 108 receiving the outputs of gates 104 and 106 and the x2 , x4 , x5 and x7 data inputs . the y1 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 110 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x1 input and a nor gate 112 receiving the intermediate variable m and the output of gate 110 . the y2 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 114 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x2 input and a nor gate 116 receiving the intermediate variable n and the output of gate 114 . the y3 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 118 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x3 input , a nor gate 120 receiving the x1 input and the intermediate variable n at an inverting input of gate 120 and an xor gate 122 receiving the outputs of gate 118 and 120 . the y4 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 124 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x4 input and a nand gate 126 receiving the intermediate variable n at an inverting input of gate 126 and the output of gate 124 . the y5 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 128 receiving the intermediate variables m and n . the y6 codeword is produced by a xor gate 130 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x5 input and a nand gate 132 receiving the intermediate variable n at an inverting input and the output of gate 130 . the y7 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 134 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x5 input , a nor gate 136 receiving the x8 input and the intermediate variable n at an inverting input of gate 137 and an xor gate 138 receiving the outputs of gate 134 and 136 . the y8 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 140 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x7 input and a nor gate 142 receiving the intermediate variable n and the output of gate 104 . the y9 codeword output is produced by a xor gate 144 receiving the intermediate variable m and the x8 input and a nor gate 146 receiving the intermediate variable n and the output of gate 144 . fig5 illustrates a decoder implementation for the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 6 ∞) code generally designated 18b . an intermediate value is given by the following : the intermediate value n is produced by a 6 - wide nand 150 receiving the y3 , y4 , y5 , y6 and y7 inputs , a 4 - wide nor 152 receiving the y1 , y2 , y8 and y9 inputs and a nand gate 154 receiving the outputs of gates 150 and 152 . the decoded data outputs z1 , z2 , z3 , z4 , z5 , z6 , z7 , z8 are given by the following : ## equ6 ## the z1 decoder data output is provided by a xor gate 156 receiving the y1 and y5 inputs , an or gate 158 receiving the y3 and inverted intermediate output n and a xor gate 160 receiving the outputs of gates 156 and 158 . the z2 decoder data output is provided by a xor gate 162 receiving the y2 and y5 inputs and a nor gate 164 receiving the intermediate variable n and the output of gate 162 . the z3 decoder data output is provided . by a xor gate 166 receiving the y3 and y5 inputs and a nand gate 168 receiving and inverting the intermediate variable n and the output of gate 166 . similarly , the z4 and z5 decoder data outputs are provided by xor gates 170 , 174 and nor gates 172 , 176 , respectively . the z6 decoder data output is provided by a xor gate 178 receiving the y7 and y5 inputs and a nand gate 180 receiving the inverted intermediate variable n and output of gate 180 . the z7 decoder data output is provided by a xor gate 182 receiving the y8 and y5 inputs and a nor gate 184 receiving the intermediate variable n and the output of gate 182 . the z8 decoder output is provided by a xor gate 186 receiving the y8 and y5 inputs , an or gate 188 receiving the y7 and inverted intermediate output n and a xor gate 190 receiving the outputs of gates 186 and 188 . fig6 provides a chart illustrating power spectrums given a random input for the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞) prml modulation codes of the invention relative to a known rate 8 / 9 ( 4 , 4 , 10 ) code and uncoded data . as shown , the rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 ,∞) and rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 6 ,∞) prml modulation codes of the invention produce greater power in the center of the channel bandwidth and less power at the bandwidth edges relative to known codes . this power spectrum decreases the codes susceptibility to misequalization which occurs dominantly at the bandwidth edges . table i__________________________________________________________________________rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 12 , ∞) codewordsinput output input output input output input output__________________________________________________________________________00000000 111101111 01000000 101101111 10000000 011101111 11000000 00110111100000001 111101110 01000001 101101110 10000001 011101110 11000001 00110111000000010 111101101 01000010 101101101 10000010 011101101 11000010 00110110100000011 111101100 01000011 101101100 10000011 011101100 11000011 11001001100000100 111101011 01000100 101101011 10000100 011101011 11000100 00110101100000101 111101010 01000101 101101010 10000101 011101010 11000101 11001010100000110 111101001 01000110 101101001 10000110 011101001 11000110 11001011000000111 111101000 01000111 010010111 10000111 100010111 11000111 11001011100001000 111100111 01001000 101100111 10001000 011100111 11001000 00110011100001001 111100110 01001001 101100110 10001001 011100110 11001001 11001100100001010 111100101 01001010 101100101 10001010 011100101 11001010 11001101000001011 111100100 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111111111__________________________________________________________________________ table ii__________________________________________________________________________rate 8 / 9 ( 0 , 8 , 6 , ∞) codewordsinput output input output input output input output__________________________________________________________________________00000000 111101111 01000000 101101111 10000000 011101111 11000000 00110111100000001 111101110 01000001 101101110 10000001 011101110 11000001 00110111000000010 111101101 01000010 101101101 10000010 011101101 11000010 00110110100000011 111101100 01000011 101101100 10000011 011101100 11000011 11001001100000100 111101011 01000100 101101011 10000100 011101011 11000100 00110101100000101 111101010 01000101 101101010 10000101 011101010 11000101 11001010100000110 111101001 01000110 101101001 10000110 011101001 11000110 11001011000000111 111101000 01000111 010010111 10000111 100010111 11000111 11001011100001000 111100111 01001000 101100111 10001000 011100111 11001000 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010001111 11110000 11111000000110001 110001110 01110001 011110001 10110001 101110001 11110001 11111000100110010 110001101 01110010 011110010 10110010 101110010 11110010 11111001000110011 001110011 01110011 011110011 10110011 101110011 11110011 11111001100110100 110001011 01110100 011110100 10110100 101110100 11110100 11111010000110101 001110101 01110101 011110101 10110101 101110101 11110101 11111010100110110 001110110 01110110 011110110 10110110 101110110 11110110 11111011000110111 001110111 01110111 011110111 10110111 101110111 11110111 11111011100111000 110000111 01111000 011111000 10111000 101111000 11111000 11111100000111001 001111001 01111001 011111001 10111001 101111001 11111001 11111100100111010 001111010 01111010 011111010 10111010 101111010 11111010 11111101000111011 001111011 01111011 011111011 10111011 101111011 11111011 11111101100111100 001111100 01111100 011111100 10111100 101111100 11111100 11111110000111101 001111101 01111101 011111101 10111101 101111101 11111101 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