Lectures

1. Hard disk drive components, HDD_vs_SSD

Slides

2. Basic Magnetism, Media, Recording Head Technology, Testing

Slide (1 page/slide) Slide (4 page/slide)

3. Recording Channel models

Slides Lab#1 HW#1 (Finish Lab#1)

4. Target-shaping equalization

NO slide Lab#2 , readback.m HW#2

5. PRML detectors

Slides Lab#3 (Sheets), Lab#3 (MATLAB Functions) HW#3

Extra slides (Multi-track, Shingle, GPR)

6. Flash memory, SSD

Slides Lab#4

7. Midterm (Sat. March 4th, 13.30-16.30 hr)

8. Low-density parity-check codes (1)

Slides Lab#5

9. Company Visit

10. Low-density parity-check codes (2)

Slides Lab#6

11. SOVA, Iterative processing

12. Channel capacity, Turbo Equalization

13. Holiday

14. Performance of Viterbi detectors, NPML, PDNP

Lab#7 Lab7 functions

15. 2-D Channels

16. Final Exam (Fri. May 19th, 13.30-16.30 hr)

HW, Exams:

Midterm exam solutions

References:

1. ผลการคายประจุไฟฟ้าสถิตในหัวบันทึก โดย ศ.ดร.อภิรัฐ ศิริธราธัวัตร

2. S. Wang, A. Taratorin,”Magnetic Information Storage Technology,” Academic Press, 2004.