Overview of Digital Recording Systems

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Bit Error Rate of Digital Recording Systems

• Scaling Rules for Magnetic Recording Systems

• Signal Amplitude

• Areal Density and Magnetic Spacing

• The Written Transition

• Magnetic Field above a Written Transition

• Head and Preamplifier Noise

• Medium Noise (Jitter)

• Total Noise and System SNR

• Nonlinear Interferences

• Top-down Design of a Recording System

• References