Digital disk read/write device
AssigneeSTMicroelectronics S.r.l.
InventorsCédric Bertholom, Jean-Michel Goiran
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AssigneeSTMicroelectronics S.r.l.
InventorsCédric Bertholom, Jean-Michel Goiran
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A device for reading from and/or writing on a rotating disk including a mobile opto-electromechanical device placed above the disk and connected to a motherboard via a set of electric wires. The opto-electromechanical device includes actuators, a laser diode, photodetectors, and an electronic circuit, each photodetector providing the electronic circuit with an analog electric signal proportional to the received light signal, the electronic circuit controlling the diode and the actuators. The electronic circuit comprises an analog-to-digital converter digitizing the analog electric signals coming from the photodetectors and transmitting the digitized signals to a digital processing unit providing data of alignment of the opto-electromechanical device with respect to the disk, and a reference clock signal having its period substantially corresponding to a multiple or to a sub-multiple of the time period corresponding to the overflight by the opto-electromechanical device of a bit of the disk.
A device for reading from and/or writing on a rotating disk comprising a mobile opto-electromechanical device placed above the disk and connected to a motherboard via a set of electric wires, the opto-electromechanical device comprising actuators, a laser diode, photodetectors, and an electronic circuit controlling the diode and the actuators, each photodetector providing an analog-to-digital converter of the electronic circuit with an analog electric signal proportional to the received light signal, wherein the electronic circuit comprises a digital processing unit receiving signals digitized by the analog-to-digital converter and providing data of alignment of the opto-electromechanical device with respect to the disk, and a reference clock signal having its period substantially corresponding to a multiple or to a sub-multiple of the time period corresponding to the overflight by the opto-electromechanical device of a bit of the disk, the electronic circuit further comprising a synchronization unit receiving said reference clock signal and receiving, in a write phase, a signal of digital data to be written coming from the motherboard, and providing, in a write phase, a synchronized digital data signal intended for the laser diode.
An electronic circuit intended to control a laser diode and actuators of a mobile opto-electromechanical device placed above a disk and receiving analog electric signals provided by a set of photodetectors of the opto-electromechanical device, comprising:
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