scholarly journals Soft-Output Detector Using Multi-Layer Perceptron for Bit-Patterned Media Recording

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 620
Author(s):  
Seongkwon Jeong ◽  
Jaejin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Areal Density ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Multi Layer Perceptron ◽  
Bit Patterned Media ◽  
Patterned Media ◽  
Ber Performance ◽  
Conventional Detection

As conventional data storage systems are faced with critical problems such as the superparamagnetic limit, bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) has received significant attention as a promising next-generation magnetic data storage system. However, the reduced spacing between islands at increased areal density causes severe intersymbol and intertrack interference, which degrade BPMR system performance. In this study, we introduce a soft-output detector using multi-layer perceptron to predict reliable information. A received signal is equalized and detected by the MLP detector. The MLP detector provides a well-estimated value by using the binary-cross entropy function as a loss function and the identity function as an activation function for the output layer of the MLP detector. This study investigates the received probability distributions out of the detectors and compares the performance of various versions against a conventional detector. Compared with the conventional detection, the proposed MLP detectors provide a small variance and better BER performance than the conventional detection. Simulations of MLP designs show an advantage over conventional detection. Moreover, the proposed MLP detectors with the demodulator exhibit better BER performance than the conventional detector with the demodulator.

scholarly journals Iterative Signal Detection Scheme Using Multilayer Perceptron for a Bit-Patterned Media Recording System

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 8819
Author(s):  
Seongkwon Jeong ◽  
Jaejin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Signal Detection ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Multilayer Perceptron ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Bit Patterned Media ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
Patterned Media ◽  
Storage Density ◽  
Priori Information

Because of the physical and engineering problems of conventional magnetic data storage systems, bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) is expected to be a promising technology for extending the storage density to beyond 1 Tb /in2. To increase the storage density in BPMR systems, the separation between islands in both down- and cross-track directions must be reduced; this reduction results in two-dimensional interference from neighboring symbols in those directions, which is a major performance degradation factor in BPMR. Herein, we propose an iterative signal detection scheme between a Viterbi detector and a multilayer perceptron to improve the performance of a BPMR system. In the proposed signal detection scheme, we use the modified output of a multilayer perceptron as a priori information to improve equalization and extrinsic information to decrease the effect of intertrack interference.

scholarly journals Modulation Code for Reducing Intertrack Interference on Staggered Bit-Patterned Media Recording

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 5295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongkwon Jeong ◽  
Jaejin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Storage System ◽  
Areal Density ◽  
Magnetic Storage ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Bit Patterned Media ◽  
Patterned Media ◽  
Cross Track ◽  
Modulation Code ◽  
Intertrack Interference

A bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) system is a type of ultrahigh-capacity magnetic storage system that can extend to an areal density of 1 terabit per square inch or higher. However, because the space between islands in the down- and cross-track directions is reduced to extend the areal density, the effect of two-dimensional interference is increased. However, using a staggered array, which is one of the possible island distributions for BPMR, helps to decrease intertrack interference. A 7/10 modulation code for a staggered BPMR is proposed to avoid the effect of two-dimensional interference and provide distance among nonidentical codewords for improving the correcting capability.

Tunneling Magnetoresistive Heads for Magnetic Data Storage

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sining Mao
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Tunnel Junctions ◽  
Hard Disk Drives ◽  
Hard Disk ◽  
Areal Density ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Magnetic Data Storage ◽  
Thermal Dissipation ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Magnetoresistive Heads

Spintronics is emerging to be a new form of nanotechnologies, which utilizes not only the charge but also spin degree of freedom of electrons. Spin-dependent tunneling transport is one of the many kinds of physical phenomena involving spintronics, which has already found industrial applications. In this paper, we first provide a brief review on the basic physics and materials for magnetic tunnel junctions, followed more importantly by a detailed coverage on the application of magnetic tunneling devices in magnetic data storage. The use of tunneling magnetoresistive reading heads has helped to maintain a fast growth of areal density, which is one of the key advantages of hard disk drives as compared to solid-state memories. This review is focused on the first commercial tunneling magnetoresistive heads in the industry at an areal density of 80 ∼ 100 Gbit/in2 for both laptop and desktop Seagate hard disk drive products using longitudinal media. The first generation tunneling magnetoresistive products utilized a bottom stack of tunnel junctions and an abutted hard bias design. The output signal amplitude of these heads was 3 times larger than that of comparable giant magnetoresistive devices, resulting in a 0.6 decade bit error rate gain over the latter. This has enabled high component and drive yields. Due to the improved thermal dissipation of vertical geometry, the tunneling magnetoresistive head runs cooler with a better lifetime performance, and has demonstrated similar electrical-static-discharge robustness as the giant magnetoresistive devices. It has also demonstrated equivalent or better process and wafer yields compared to the latter. The tunneling magnetoresistive heads are proven to be a mature and capable reader technology. Using the same head design in conjunction with perpendicular recording media, an areal density of 274 Gbit/in2 has been demonstrated, and advanced tunneling magnetoresistive heads can reach 311 Gbit/in2. Today, the tunneling magnetoresistive heads have become a mainstream technology for the hard disk industry and will still be a technology of choice for future hard disk products.

scholarly journals Micromagnetic Simulation of L10-FePt-Based Exchange-Coupled-Composite-Bit-Patterned Media with Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording at Ultrahigh Areal Density

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1264
Author(s):  
Pirat Khunkitti ◽  
Naruemon Wannawong ◽  
Chavakon Jongjaihan ◽  
Apirat Siritaratiwat ◽  
Anan Kruesubthaworn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Recording ◽  
Magnetic Domain ◽  
Hysteresis Loops ◽  
Areal Density ◽  
Bit Patterned Media ◽  
Patterned Media ◽  
Microwave Assisted ◽  
The Media ◽  
5 Ghz ◽  
Exchange Coupled Composite

In this work, we propose exchange-coupled-composite-bit-patterned media (ECC-BPM) with microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) to improve the writability of the magnetic media at a 4 Tb/in2 recording density. The suitable values of the applied microwave field’s frequency and the exchange coupling between magnetic dots, Adot, of the proposed media were evaluated. It was found that the magnitude of the switching field, Hsw, of the bilayer ECC-BPM is significantly lower than that of a conventional BPM. Additionally, using the MAMR enables further reduction of Hsw of the ECC-BPM. The suitable frequency of the applied microwave field for the proposed media is 5 GHz. The dependence of Adot on the Hsw was additionally examined, showing that the Adot of 0.14 pJ/m is the most suitable value for the proposed bilayer ECC-BPM. The physical explanation of the Hsw of the media under a variation of MAMR and Adot was given. Hysteresis loops and the magnetic domain of the media were characterized to provide further details on the results. The lowest Hsw found in our proposed media is 12.2 kOe, achieved by the bilayer ECC-BPM with an Adot of 0.14 pJ/m using a 5 GHz MAMR.

Impact of Touchdown Detection on Bit Patterned Media Robustness

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-Yang Juang ◽  
Kuan-Te Lin
Keyword(s):  
Areal Density ◽  
Flying Height ◽  
Head Disk Interface ◽  
Bit Patterned Media ◽  
Patterned Media ◽  
Disk Interface ◽  
Recording Process ◽  
Friction Temperature ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Bit patterned media (BPM) is considered as a revolutionary technology to enable further increase of areal density of magnetic recording beyond 1 Tbits/in2 [1]. Implementing BPM technology, however, significantly increases the complexity of the recording process, but also poses tremendous tribological challenges on the head-disk interface (HDI) [2]. One of the major challenges facing BPM is touchdown detection by thermal flying-height control (TFC), in which a minute heater located near the read/write transducers is used to thermally protrude a small portion of the slider into contact with the disk, and the contact is then detected by directly or indirectly measuring the friction, temperature rise or vibration caused by the contact [3]–[7]. Most recording heads rely on touchdown detection to achieve a desired flying height (FH), which approaches sub-1-nm regime for many of today’s commercial drives. As a result sensitive and accurate touchdown detection is of critical importance for a reliable head-disk interface by reducing contact duration and unnecessary interaction between the slider and the disk. However, the impact of touchdown on the mechanical robustness of the media has not been properly studied.

Trellis-Based Detecting the Insertion and Deletion Bits for Bit-Patterned Media Recording

2014 ◽  
Vol 979 ◽  
pp. 54-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santi Koonkarnkhai ◽  
Piya Kovintavewat ◽  
Phongsak Keeratiwintakorn
Keyword(s):  
Detection Method ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Areal Density ◽  
Specific Marker ◽  
Magnetic Medium ◽  
Bit Patterned Media ◽  
Patterned Media ◽  
Media Noise ◽  
Insertion And Deletion ◽  
Better Than

Bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) is one of the promising technologies for realizing an areal density up to 4 Tb/in2; however, it poses new challenges to read channel design, including the two-dimensional (2D) interference, media noise, and track mis-registration. Furthermore, the BPMR system encounters the insertion, deletion and substitution errors, which are primarily caused by mis-synchronization between the write clock and the island positions. In this paper, we propose a novel detection method that exploits the trellis structure to detect the occurrence of insertion/deletion bits. Specifically, the specific marker bits are inserted periodically inside an input data sequence before recording onto a magnetic medium. Hence, the branch metric calculation is monitored during the marker bits to determine if there is any insertion/deletion error in the system. Numerical results indicate that the proposed method can performs better than the conventional one in terms of the percentage of detection and the percentage of missed detection and false-alarm, especially at low signal-to-noise ratio scenario.

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