As a PRML system for perpendicular magnetic recording using a double-layered medium and an MR head, a new PR(1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1)ML system is proposed. The relationship between the required SNR to achieve a bit error rate of 10^-4 and a normalized linear density for(1, 7)RLL and 16/17(0, 6/6)recording codes is obtained by computer simulation and it is compared with those of conventional PRML systems. The results show that among these PRML systems the conventional(1, 7)RLL coded PR(1, 2, 3, 2, 1)ML systems shows the best performance in relatively low density recording while the(1, 7)RLL coded PR(1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1)ML system has the best performance in high density recoding.
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