Cmos Circuits for Thermal Asperity Detection and Recovery in Disk-drive Read Channels *
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A thermal asperity detection and recovery scheme for a disk-drive read channel is presented. The circuit design and simulation results for two key blocks, the AC coupler and its tuning loop, in a 0.5μm CMOS process are described.
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