Coding and Iterative Detection for Magnetic Recording Channels

The advent of the internet age has produced enormous demand for increased storage capacity and for the consequent increases in the amount of information that can be stored in a small space. While physical and media improvements have driven the majority of improvement in modern storage systems, signal processing and coding methods have increasingly been used to augment those improvements. Run—length—limited codes and partial—response detection methods have come to be the norm in an industry ...