Increasing densities on magnetic data storage devices leads to problems of
severe intersymbol interference (ISI), additive noise and non-linearities. Advanced
detection strategies for magnetic recording channels fall into two categories: partial
response equalization with maximum likelihood decoding and decision feedback
equalization. This study focuses on doing an adaptive all-pass forward...
Adaptive filtering may be applied in areas where an optimal filtering algorithm
may not be known a-priori and where the filtering operation may be non-stationary. This
field, or more generally, the field of adaptive systems, is one which may be regarded as
mature, having been the subject of considerable research...
Oversampled analog-to-digital (A/D) converter architectures have been receiving
increased attention for high-precision A/D converters. These architectures offer the
means of exchanging resolution in time for that in amplitude. Among these
oversampled A/D converters, delta-sigma modulators are the most popular method
used due to their simplicity in the analog circuitry. The...