Title :
164 Ms/s tape drive channel IC with 4 independent digital peak detect read/write channels and automatic tape speed tracking over a 3:1 range
Author :
O´Dwyer, J. ; Maher, R. ; McDonagh, S. ; Looney, M. ; Dwyer, A. ; Jackson, M. ; Lynch, C. ; Severi, F. ; McAuliffe, C. ; Moloney, D. ; Gamble, C. ; Swanbeck, S.
Author_Institution :
Silicon Systems Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
Four complete tape read/write channels are implemented on a single chip with total data rate of 132 Mb/s (164 Ms/s), and all circuitry tracks the data rate from the tape over a 3:1 range. Wholly digital peak detectors, channel calibration, thermal asperity detectors and continuous offset cancellation are integrated. The 70 mm20.7 µm BiCMOS IC dissipates 2.4W at maximum data rate and 5V.
Keywords :
Analog integrated circuits; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Calibration; Clocks; Detectors; Digital filters; Digital integrated circuits; Frequency synthesizers; Servomechanisms; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1999. ESSCIRC '99. Proceedings of the 25th European
Conference_Location :
Duisburg, Germany
