Zero phase restart interpolated timing recovery in a sampled amplitude read channel

• US 5,835,295 A
• Filed: 11/18/1996
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lake Cherokee Hard Drive Technologies LLC (Star Company Scientific Technologies Advanced Research Company LLC)
• Original Assignee: Cirrus Logic Incorporated
• Inventors: Behrens, Richard T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Psitos, Aristotelis M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOLDER, REGINA NEAL
• Application Number:
  US08/751,880
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• Field of Search: 360/46, 360/51, 360/65, 375/230, 375/262, 375/341, 375/340, 375/242, 375/376, 369/48, 369/59
• US Class Current: 360/51
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10009 Improvement or modification of read or write signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10037 A/D conversion, D/A conversion, sampling, slicing and digital quantisation or adjusting parameters thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10055 using partial response filtering when writing the signal to the medium or reading it therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1403 characterised by the use of two levels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/09 Digital recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/0029 interpolation of received data signal

Abstract

A sampled amplitude read channel is disclosed for disc storage systems which asynchronously samples an analog read signal, equalizes the resulting discrete time sample values according to a target partial response, extracts synchronous sample values through interpolated timing recovery, and detects digital data from the synchronous sample values using a Viterbi sequence detector. The interpolated timing recovery comprises a zero phase restart circuit for minimizing an intial phase error between expected sample values and interpolated sample values at the beginning of an acquisition mode by computing an initial sampling phase offset.

Claims

1. A sampled amplitude read channel for detecting data stored on a storage medium by sampling pulses in an analog read signal emanating from a read head positioned over the medium, comprising:

(a) a sampling device for asynchronously sampling the analog read signal to generate a sequence of discrete time, asynchronous sample values;

(b) interpolated timing recovery for generating a sequence of substantially synchronous sample values from the asynchronous sample values using an interpolation interval computed relative to a difference between the asynchronous sample values and synchronous sample values;

(c) a zero phase restart circuit, responsive to the asynchronous sample values, for computing an initial interpolation interval at a beginning of an acquisition mode; and

(d) a discrete time sequence detector for detecting the data from the substantially synchronous sample values,

wherein the zero phase restart circuit comprises a processor for computing a sampling phase offset using a predetermined number of the asynchronous sample values, and the processor computes a real and imaginary component of the asynchronous sample values in the frequency domain.

2. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor computes an arc tangent.

3. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 2, wherein the arc tangent is computed according to a lookup table.

4. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 1, further comprising an expected sample value generator for generating expected sample values during the acquisition mode.

5. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 4, wherein the zero phase restart circuit initializes the expected sample value generator at the beginning of the acquisition mode.

6. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 5, wherein the zero phase restart circuit comprises a processor for computing a phase quadrant for a predetermined one of the asynchronous sample values.

7. A sampled amplitude read channel for detecting data stored on a storage medium by sampling pulses in an analog read signal emanating from a read head positioned over the medium, comprising:

(a) a sampling device for sampling the analog read signal to generate a sequence of discrete time sample values;

(b) timing recovery for extracting timing information from the discrete time sample values;

(c) a zero phase restart circuit for computing an initial phase offset between a reference sample and an expected sample at a beginning of an acquisition mode, the initial phase offset computed using more than four of the discrete time sample values; and

(d) a discrete time sequence detector for detecting the data from the discrete time sample values.

8. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 7, wherein the processor computes a real and imaginary component of the discrete time sample values in the frequency domain.

9. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 8, wherein the processor computes an arc tangent.

10. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 9, wherein the arc tangent is computed according to a lookup table.

11. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 7, further comprising an expected sample value generator for generating expected sample values during the acquisition mode.

12. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 11, wherein the zero phase restart circuit initializes the expected sample value generator at the beginning of the acquisition mode.

13. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 11, wherein the zero phase restart circuit comprises a processor for computing a phase quadrant of the reference sample value.

14. A sampled amplitude read channel for detecting data stored on a storage medium by sampling pulses in an analog read signal emanating from a read head positioned over the medium, comprising:

(a) a sampling device for sampling the analog read signal to generate a sequence of discrete time sample values;

(b) timing recovery for extracting timing information from the discrete time sample values;

(c) a zero phase restart circuit for computing an initial phase offset between a reference sample and an expected sample by computing a discrete fourier transform using a predetermined number of the discrete time sample values; and

(d) a discrete time sequence detector for detecting the data from the discrete time sample values.

15. The sampled amplitude read channel as recited in claim 14, wherein the predetermined number of sample values for computing the discrete fourier transform is greater than four.