JP2001216735A - Signal processing circuit and information recording and reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the time required for optimizing an equalization circuit, optimizing various kinds of conditions in recording and reproducing in a magnetic recording and reproducing device, and to constitute a signal processing circuit for realizing it. SOLUTION: The circuit is provided with an automatic gain adjusting circuit which is connected to the output of the equalizing circuit 20 to detect the amplitude of the output signal of the equalizing circuit one by one and consists of a variable gain amplifier circuit(VGA) 17, a gain control circuit (GCC) 29 and a DAC for AGC of a current output type (VDAC) 30, an identification circuit 44 receiving the output signal of the circuit 20 as an input signal to identify the output signal, an error calculating circuit 41 for calculating an error concerning the amplitude of a signal at the circuit 44 from the input signal and the output signal of the circuit 44, a discrimination circuit 56 setting a threshold value and outputting a count signal with an error signal equal to or larger than this threshold value, and a counter 49 for counting this count signal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a signal processing circuit used in an information recording / reproducing device such as a magnetic disk device or a magneto-optical disk device, and more particularly, to optimization of an equalizing circuit in a device using partial response processing. ,
The present invention relates to a coefficient optimization circuit and method for an equalization circuit having a function of predicting discrimination performance, such as optimization of various conditions during recording and reproduction, for example, optimization of a recording current value, a DC offset correction amount, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In this type of information recording / reproducing apparatus,
It is necessary to optimally set various control parameters for recording and reproducing signals. For example, optimization of a recording current value of a magnetic disk device is performed as follows. That is, after a certain recording current value is set and recorded on the magnetic disk, the bit error rate (BER) is measured while changing the phase of the discrimination window of the phase discriminator which is the discriminator of the reproduction signal processing circuit, and a sufficient BER is measured. (For example, 1.0E
-8 or less) phase width of the discrimination window (phase margin)
Is measured. FIG. 2 shows a so-called bucket curve. This measurement is performed every time the recording current value is changed, and the phase margin at each recording current value is measured. The relationship between each recording current value and the phase margin is examined (FIG. 3), and the recording current value at which the phase margin is maximized is determined as the optimum value.

[0003] In the evaluation by BER using this type of phase discriminating apparatus, it takes at least an order of minutes to obtain a bucket curve as shown in FIG. Therefore, it takes several minutes to optimize only the recording current.

Actually, in addition to the recording current value, the amount of correction of the reversal position of the recording current (referred to as recording correction), the characteristics of the equalizing circuit, the discrimination level of the discriminator, and the like are also parameters for optimization.

Moreover, these parameters cannot be evaluated independently of each other because they are evaluated using a random pattern. Therefore, in order to optimize each parameter with high accuracy, it is preferable to measure the bucket curve by the product of the number of parameters and the number of divisions of each parameter,
Optimization takes an enormous amount of time. When the variation in the magnetic head or the recording / reproducing circuit is large, optimization for each device or head is required, and an enormous amount of time is required.

[0006] For the case of discrimination by amplitude discrimination, there is a technique described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-144969.
The method estimates the BER of the device by comparing the sequence of the digital signal at the input of the classifier with the sequence of the reference signal and measuring a histogram of the error values. The number of bits required to measure the histogram with sufficient accuracy may be at most several thousand to several tens of thousands of bits, which is much smaller than the above-described conventional example of phase discrimination (1.0E + 8 bits or more) for directly measuring BER. The time required for optimizing various parameters can be reduced in a short time.

However, the evaluation based on the prediction of the BER in the apparatus described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-144969 requires a relatively large-scale evaluation mechanism for measuring the histogram of the error value. Determine the error value in real time,
Counters or memories are required for the number of histograms. When the measurement of the histogram is performed inside the apparatus, an increase in circuit scale is inevitable. In addition, when a histogram is measured outside the apparatus while monitoring the input signal of the discriminator on the board, the measurement is performed at the bit rate of the apparatus. With difficulty.

On the other hand, as a method for optimizing the tap coefficient of the equalizing circuit, there is a method described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-150114. This is because the reproduction waveform corresponding to one magnetization reversal (so-called isolated magnetization reproduction waveform) of an information recording / reproducing device such as a magnetic disk device or a magneto-optical disk device can be simulated by a Lorentzian waveform. Since the drawing method is almost the object, this shows a coefficient correction means and method of a transversal type equalization circuit with a 3-tap symmetric coefficient, that is, a so-called cosine equalization circuit. In this case, a training area of several bytes is provided to perform coefficient correction in real time.

In the case of optimizing only one tap coefficient as in a cosine equalizing circuit, the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-150114 is used.
Is preferred. However, when trying to record at higher density, the resolution of the reproduced waveform is reduced, the tail becomes longer and the tail is trailed, and the symmetry of the reproduced waveform is broken. Sufficient equalization performance cannot be obtained.

On the other hand, as a coefficient correction algorithm capable of obtaining an optimum value of a plurality of tap coefficients with relatively high accuracy, CLMS (Clip Trim Square;
A successive correction coefficient correction algorithm such as CLMS) is known. However, in a device that restores a clock for an equalization circuit from a signal obtained at a subsequent stage of the equalization circuit, competition between the phase characteristics and the clock phase due to the asymmetric tap coefficient of the equalization circuit during the coefficient correction process. Occurs, and the characteristics of the equalization circuit are not determined. In addition, there is a problem that the coefficient oscillation in the convergence state is unavoidable due to the delay of the equalizer circuit and the coefficient correction circuit portion and the finite number of bits of the digital circuit, so that sufficient performance cannot be obtained.

In order to execute the above coefficient correction operation, the HDC 4 needs to normally raise the read gate in the data area. For this reason, at least the ID can be read even under the condition of the non-optimized equalizing circuit. There must be.
Therefore, the data pattern (in this case, referred to as a sync byte) indicating the boundary between the AGC / PLL pull-in area and the data area needs to be a specific pattern that is easy to identify.

Further, such a signal processing circuit is implemented by an LSI
In such a case, it is important to consider the chip area, the power consumption, the number of pins, the cost, and the like, since the circuit scale becomes enormous. It is preferable that it can be realized as a one-chip LSI including all components. However, for example, when the power consumption is large, it is important to determine at which part, for example, it must be divided into two or more chips.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a combination of a successively correcting coefficient correction circuit and an equalization circuit.
An object of the present invention is to provide a signal processing circuit that can be realized with a high-performance and smaller circuit that can correct the amplitude characteristic and the phase characteristic with high accuracy, or an information recording / reproducing apparatus using the same.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for optimizing various control parameters of an information recording / reproducing apparatus, which can realize optimization of various control parameters in a relatively short time.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a more efficient LSI configuration when a reproduction signal processing circuit is implemented by being divided into a plurality of chips of LSI.

[0016]

The object of the present invention is achieved by a signal processing circuit including an equalizing circuit and a successively correcting coefficient correcting circuit according to the following construction.

In this signal processing circuit, a transversal type equalizer having five or more taps is used, and among the tap coefficients of the equalizer, tap coefficients on both sides of the center tap are defined to have the same value. From the simulation results of the present inventors, if the tap coefficients on both sides of the center tap have the same value, even if the two tap coefficients at both ends are free,
Competition with the phase characteristics of the automatic phase synchronization circuit was avoided, and it was found that coefficient correction could be performed stably even with a coefficient correction circuit of the sequential correction type. This is because at least two tap coefficients provided at both ends have different values, so that the waveform distortion after equalization can be minimized even if the signal input to the equalization circuit has phase distortion. It is. At this time, the phase distortion of the signal appears as an anteroposterior symmetrical Tas of the isolated waveform, and is defined as Tas = | T1−T2 | / PW50 (PW50 = T1 + T2). Equalization performance equivalent to (optimal filter that minimizes the square error) can be obtained. Here, as for each symbol in the above equation, the PW50 has a half width, the leading edge of the PW50 is T1, and the trailing edge is T2. From the simulation result, the half width PW50 of the signal input to the equalization circuit is obtained.
And the data period is the ratio (referred to as channel density) S of Tb
However, when S = PW50 / Tb> 2, the number of taps of the equalizing circuit is preferably 7 or more. With five taps, the error in the output of the equalization circuit is large, and good device performance cannot be obtained. Also in this case, of the tap coefficients of the equalizer circuit, the tap coefficients on both sides of the center tap are simply defined as the same value, and the other four taps on both ends can have different coefficient values.

According to the present invention, in a transversal type equalization circuit having five or more taps, among the tap coefficients of the equalization circuit, not only on both sides of the center tap as described above, but also taps located symmetrically from the center tap. It may be preferable that the coefficients have the same value. This is because if the symmetry of the impulse response of the signal input to the equalization circuit is good, high-precision equalization can be performed even if the resolution is low. As a result, in addition to the effect that the conflict of the phase characteristics does not occur as described above, the coefficient is corrected by the average correlation signal of 2 bits at the target tap position for all the taps, so that the noise level of the input signal is large. Can be reduced to about 0.7 times, and coefficient correction with good stability is possible.

According to the present invention, when a transversal type equalizing circuit is used, a negative coefficient value of the equalizing circuit is set with a positive coefficient value by inverting the output of the tap delay means. Preferably it is possible to do so.
In the case of a waveform having a relatively monotonous tail, such as an isolated magnetization reproduction waveform for magnetic recording, the tap coefficient of a transversal type equalizer that equalizes this waveform is assumed that the sign of the center tap coefficient is positive. , Towards both sides, negative,
The signs are alternately changed to positive, negative, positive,. Therefore, it is possible to invert and output the data at the tap position that is presumed to be a negative coefficient, and as a result, the sign of the coefficient bit of the equalizing circuit is eliminated, and the circuit scale is reduced.

In the present invention, the tap coefficient is preferably set in a register. The coefficient value is set to "0" at a specific tap position of the transversal equalization circuit, and the operation of correcting the coefficient is stopped. This allows the best coefficient correction when the number of taps is set small, and furthermore,
Power consumption is reduced when the tap coefficient is "0".

It is preferable that the input signal of the equalizing circuit is processed into, for example, a partial response waveform and input to the coefficient correction circuit. As a result, the precision of the coefficient correction circuit is improved, and coefficient correction can be performed with an arbitrary random data pattern, and coefficient correction can be performed at a user site. For example, in a magnetic disk device, even if the characteristics of the magnetic head and the disk medium change over time,
Optimal equalization circuit conditions can always be maintained on the device.

The coefficient correction of the equalizing circuit according to the present invention is performed, for example, by providing the following means. That is, a simple identification means for easily identifying an input signal of the equalization circuit, an error calculation means for calculating an error signal from the output signal of the equalization circuit and the identification means,
Delay means for delaying the output signal of the simple identification means, correlation value calculation means for calculating a correlation value between the output signal of the delay means and the output signal of the error calculation means, and correlation for sequentially adding the output signals of the correlation value calculation means Value adding means, coefficient correction amount calculating means for calculating a coefficient correction amount from a signal obtained by adding the output signal of the correlation value adding means a fixed number of times, and correcting the coefficient value of the equalizer circuit by the output signal of the coefficient correction amount calculating means. A coefficient error correction means is provided, and the coefficient correction circuit suspends the sequential addition of correlation values for a delay time equal to or more than a delay time until a signal input to the equalization circuit is output after performing the coefficient correction. is there.

According to this, the correlation data is not obtained while correcting the coefficient, and the accumulation of the correlation data is always performed under a constant tap coefficient value. Therefore, the coefficient correction circuit according to the present means does not cause an error due to a loop delay that may occur in the conventional CLMS (clip-tree mean square). Furthermore, since it is essentially an open loop, signal processing such as averaging (corresponding to the correlation value calculating means in this means) can be sufficiently performed, the influence of finite bits and the like can be reduced, and higher precision can be expected. .

Further, a delay amount control means for controlling a delay amount of the delay means, a selection means for selecting a tap coefficient to be corrected in conjunction with the delay amount control means, and a tap coefficient value corrected by the coefficient error correction means. And a coefficient temporary holding means for temporarily holding, the delay amount is fixed at the time of calculating the correction amount of the tap coefficient, and all tap coefficients are determined at the time when the coefficient value of each tap coefficient is determined by controlling the selecting means. The correction may be made. As described above, the coefficient correction means according to the present invention is basically open loop. Therefore, if the linearity and randomness of the signal input to the equalization circuit can be guaranteed, it is not necessary to correct each tap coefficient with the same information (signal). It is possible to correct the tap coefficient in a time-division manner using the delay amount control means and the selection means, thereby greatly reducing the circuit scale.

Further, in the above configuration, the input signal of the equalization circuit, which is the input signal of the coefficient correction circuit of the equalization circuit, and the output signal of the equalization circuit can be thinned and input. As described above, the coefficient correction means only needs to obtain an error signal between the equalizer circuit input signal and the equalizer circuit output signal corresponding to the tap coefficient position. Therefore, the error signal between the input signal of the equalization circuit and the output signal of the equalization circuit does not necessarily have to be obtained continuously, and may be thinned out in this way. By thinning out,
The operating frequency of the coefficient correction circuit can be reduced to 1 / (the number of thinnings + 1), and the power consumption can be significantly reduced without increasing the circuit scale.

As a means for calculating an optimum coefficient value externally, a signal input to the transversal type equalizer is divided into two equal to the total number of taps of the equalizer by a data clock cycle.
It is also possible to provide a data holding means for holding a data section having a length twice or more, and to output the data held by the data holding means to the outside by a clock means different from the data clock. As a method of obtaining the tap coefficient of the equalizer circuit, in addition to the above-described successive correction type, generally, a considerable amount of the input signal of the equalizer circuit is serially stored, and an ideal output corresponding thereto is given. There is a known way to obtain a Wiener filter solution. Using this, it is possible to take out the held data to the outside and obtain an optimal solution by matrix operation. The data section length can be reduced to about twice the number of taps of the equalization circuit by devising a pattern or the like. However, a longer data section length can avoid the influence of noise, so that a better tap coefficient can be obtained.

According to the present invention, an error detecting circuit can be configured as follows as a circuit for optimizing each parameter.

For example, an error calculating means for calculating an error signal in the second discriminating circuit from an input signal of the second discriminating circuit and an output signal of the second discriminating circuit using the input signal of the discriminating circuit as an input signal; And a counting means for setting a certain threshold value and outputting a count signal with an error signal equal to or greater than the threshold value, and a counting means for counting the count signal. An input signal to an identification circuit in the signal processing circuit;
An error signal from the target amplitude of the equalization circuit is obtained by the second identification circuit and the error calculation circuit. This error signal is compared with a fixed threshold value set in the discriminating means, and the discrimination output is set to "1" when the error signal is equal to or larger than the threshold value, and is set to "0" otherwise. The counting means counts up only when the output of the discriminating means is "1".

The input signal and the error signal of the second discriminating circuit are as shown in FIG. 4, and the error signal is distributed positively and negatively with "0" as a center, and is regarded as substantially a normal distribution. Therefore, the ratio of the count to the total population is determined by the variance value of the error signal and the fixed threshold value of the determination means (population ratio in statistics). That is, since the total population and the threshold are known, the variance of the error signal can be estimated from the count. In general, the performance (BER) of a classifier in a device depends on the signal quality (eg, variance) input to the classifier. Therefore, minimizing the variance enables optimization of various device parameters. Become.

Further, in the above-described error detection circuit, the identification level of the second identification circuit can be set by a register. If the discrimination level of the second discrimination circuit of the error detection circuit can be arbitrarily set, the discrimination can be performed by changing the threshold value, and the following advantages are obtained.
Usually, the second identification circuit has binary identification levels of +0.5 and -0.5 in order to identify three values of +1, 0 and -1. Here, for example, when a data pattern that can take only binary values of +1 and −1 is identified as an output data pattern of the equalization circuit, an identification error is likely to occur at the above-described identification level depending on the magnitude of an error or noise. In such a case, if the threshold is set to "0", the circuit can be operated substantially as a binary identification circuit, the identification performance is improved (noise resistance is doubled), and the error signal is improved. Also gives more accurate values. More accurate device optimization becomes possible.

Further, in the above-described error detection circuit,
The number of identification levels of the second identification circuit can be set by a register. The second discriminating circuit has a threshold value of 2
If it can be operated as a value output discriminating circuit, discriminating performance can be improved at the time of a specific data pattern (noise resistance is doubled), and a more accurate error signal can be obtained. If the output of the second identification circuit is always "0", the output value of the equalization circuit can be directly input to the determination means.

Further, the above error detection circuit can be used together with the following registers. For example, a recording current setting register and a recording current output terminal may be provided in the signal processing circuit. The relationship between the recording current value of the recording head of the information recording / reproducing apparatus and the reproduction output amplitude input to the signal processing circuit is substantially as shown in FIG. In general, the larger the reproduction output amplitude detected by the reproduction head, the better the quality of the reproduction signal. At this time, for example, if the input signal of the discriminating means of the signal processing circuit is set to a signal corresponding to the... +1, +1, -1, -1, +1, +1. The signal amplitude is equal to the positive or negative equalization target value of 2
There is only a level, and there is no level corresponding to “0”. As the reproduced output amplitude is smaller, the ratio of noise to signal increases, so that the error signal increases and the variance of the signal input to the discriminating means also increases as shown in FIG. Therefore, if the discrimination is made with a proper negative threshold value and the count value becomes equal to or larger than the threshold value and counted every time the recording current value is changed, it is understood that the recording current value with the maximum count value is the optimum condition.

According to the present invention, the signal processing circuit can be provided with a register for setting the sense current of the reproducing head and a sense current output terminal. When the magnetoresistive element is used as a reproducing head of an information recording / reproducing device, if the bias magnetization of the head is not optimized, a phenomenon occurs in which the amplitude of the reproduced waveform differs depending on the polarity of the isolated magnetization. Since this isolated waveform is AC-coupled and input to the signal processing circuit, the "0" level of the identification signal is shifted as shown in FIG. Therefore, recording is performed with a recording pattern that minimizes the magnetization density as the magnetization state on the recording medium, and the following error detection is performed each time the sense current is changed.

The output of the second identification circuit is always "0",
The output of the equalization circuit is input to the determination means as it is,
The threshold value of the determination means is set to "0", and every time the sense current is changed, the case where the threshold value is equal to or more than the threshold value "0" for a certain period is counted. If the bias magnetization due to the sense current is not optimized and the amplitude ratio is different, the average value of the error signal is "
Since it deviates from “0”, the count value does not become 母 of the total population. The deviation from “0” at this time is less than the reference value, and the count value at a constant negative threshold becomes the maximum. The sense current value is set as the optimum sense current.

Further, an offset setting circuit for DC offset correction and an offset correction register may be provided in the signal processing circuit to correct the offset amount from a no-signal state.

By making the output signal of the equalizer circuit almost exclusively random circuit noise and performing error detection each time the setting of the offset correction amount is changed, the average value of the error signal output from the equalizer circuit is obtained. The offset correction amount at which the deviation becomes the smallest from “0” is defined as the optimum offset correction amount.

In the signal processing circuit having the same configuration as described above, the offset amount may be corrected from a signal of a single frequency.

By making the recording data a single recording frequency and performing error detection each time the setting of the offset correction amount is changed, the offset correction amount with the smallest variance of the error of the output of the equalizing circuit is determined as the optimum offset correction amount. I do.

According to the present invention, in the above-mentioned signal processing circuit, a coefficient value register for giving characteristics to the equalizing circuit is provided. By making the recording data random data and performing error detection each time the setting of the coefficient value is changed, the coefficient value with the smallest error variance of the output of the equalization circuit is determined as the optimum coefficient value.

Further, a correction value register of a recording correction circuit for correcting the magnetization reversal position during data recording according to the data sequence may be provided. The recording data is random data, and an error is detected each time recording is performed by changing the correction value register, so that the recording correction value with the smallest error variance of the output of the equalizing circuit is determined as the optimum correction value.

As another example of the error detecting circuit according to the present invention, a discriminating means for taking an input signal of the discriminating circuit as an input signal and outputting a count signal with an input signal equal to or larger than a threshold value, and a count signal outputted from this discriminating means And a means for setting a threshold value. The output signal of the equalization circuit (input signal of the discrimination circuit) is made to be almost only random circuit noise, and error detection is performed every time the setting of the offset correction amount is changed. The offset correction amount with the smallest deviation of the average value from “0” from is set as the optimum offset correction amount.

The above-described offset adjustment and optimization of the sense current of the magnetoresistive read head can be performed without the second identification circuit. As a configuration of a signal processing circuit for realizing this, a first discriminating means for taking an input signal of the discriminating circuit as an input signal and outputting a count signal with an input signal less than the threshold value, and a count output from the first discriminating means. A first counting means for counting a signal, a second determining means for outputting a count signal with an input signal exceeding a threshold value, and a second determining means for counting a count signal output from the second determining means.
Counting means, a count value calculating means for subtracting the count value of the second counting means from the count value of the first counting means, and means for setting a threshold value.

According to this circuit, it is possible to optimize the offset adjustment and the sense current of the magnetoresistive read head by directly counting the error of the output signal of the equalizing circuit.

In this circuit, of the input signals to the discrimination circuit, a signal excluding the sign bit can be used as the input signal. Excluding the sign bit of the input signal of the discriminating circuit (the output signal of the equalizing circuit), the signal at this time is converted to a positive signal when the original signal is negative, and does not change when the original signal is positive. Is a 2's complement representation). When the output signal of the equalizer circuit is +1, +1, -1, -1, +1, +1,-
In the case of a single frequency such as 1, -1,..., The signal excluding the sign bit at this time is converted as shown in FIG. Therefore, if the threshold value of the determination means is set near the equalization target value of the equalization circuit, the variance of the error from the target value can be detected.

Further, the above-mentioned circuit has a first mode in which a signal excluding a sign bit among the input signals of the identification circuit is an input signal, and a second mode in which a sign bit is also an input signal. Can be set by a register. According to this, the circuit is simpler than using the above-described second identification circuit, and the offset adjustment, the optimization of the recording current, and the optimization of the sense current can be performed by almost the same method.

In order to improve the reliability of the recording of a specific recording data pattern required for these optimizations and the reproduction reliability, at the time of recording the data, the precoding means is used to control the sync byte which is the byte indicating the start of the data. Can be reset immediately before. As a result, the magnetization state of the data pattern after the sync byte can be defined, and a specific pattern required for optimizing the above parameters can be recorded.

According to the present invention, assuming that the recording method is such that the magnetization reversal occurs with data "1" and the recording current direction is maintained with data "0", the head of the data starts with "0",
Use is made of means for setting a sync byte in which data "1" does not continuously exist in a serial data sequence. As a result, it is possible to provide a sync byte that does not interfere with the data patterns for the automatic gain adjustment circuit and the automatic phase synchronization circuit that are recorded in advance and that does not easily cause nonlinear distortion during recording. Therefore, even if the recording current, the sense current, and the coefficient of the equalizing circuit are not optimized, it can be detected relatively easily.

Further, in addition to the above configuration, a series of “0” and “1” of the recording code data corresponding to the sync byte corresponds to “1” of the data continuously recorded before the sync byte.
It is assumed that the sequence of 0 ”and“ 1 ”is different from that of the data sequence of the sync byte by at least one half of the sync byte, so that the previously recorded automatic gain adjustment circuit and automatic phase synchronization circuit can be used. The probability of falsely detecting a data pattern as a sync byte is greatly reduced.

According to the present invention, in order to realize a signal processing circuit with less deterioration, the target amplitude value of the automatic gain adjustment circuit is made variable by register setting. by this,
When the resolution of the input signal is low, by reducing the target amplitude value, it is possible to prevent the signal from being saturated in each part of the signal processing circuit, and to withstand impulse noise, for example. On the other hand, when the resolution of the input signal is high, by increasing the target amplitude value, deterioration due to the circuit such as circuit noise is reduced, and the BER is improved.

The present invention is also directed to a signal processing circuit in which an analog circuit and a digital circuit are mixed and each control circuit of an automatic gain adjustment circuit and an automatic phase synchronization circuit is a digital circuit. An LSI having a chip configuration, outputs of each control circuit of an automatic gain adjustment circuit and an automatic phase synchronization circuit of a digital chip are output as pins via a current output type D / A conversion circuit, and a variable gain amplifier circuit and a voltage of an analog chip are output. Input to control oscillation circuit.
As described above, by outputting a current from the digital chip, the influence of noise that can be mixed in from the chip itself can be reduced, and the number of pins can be significantly reduced as compared with the case of outputting as a digital signal of several bits.

[0051]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a magnetic disk drive will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of the magnetic disk drive.

The magnetic disk drive (HD) according to this embodiment
D) 7 is mainly a head disk assembly (HDA)
1, a recording signal processing circuit (WSPC) 2, a reproduction signal processing circuit (RSPC) 3, a signal processing interface (SPIF) 33, a head disk controller (HD
C) 4, a servo signal processing circuit (SRVC) 5, and a device controller (CNT) 6. This device includes, for example, partial response class 4 (PR4) and maximum likelihood decoding (ML).
(Also called Viterbi decoding)
The RML method is adopted.

Each component is specifically as follows.

The HDA 1 includes a reproducing head (MR head) 8 using a magnetoresistive element, a thin-film recording head (IND head) 9, a recording / reproducing preamplifier (R / WIC) 11,
A magnetic disk (DISK) 10 and the like are provided. At the time of recording information, the disk 10 is rotated at a constant rotational speed.
The recording current that reverses according to the information from WSPC2 is R /
It is supplied to the IND head 9 via the WIC 11 and recorded as magnetization information.

At the time of reproduction, the weak magnetization information detected by the MR head 8 is amplified via the R / WIC and output to the RSPC 3. The magnitudes of the recording current of the IND head and the sense current of the MR head are controlled by WSPC2 and RSPC3, and the rotation operation of the DISK 10 and the positioning operation of the IND head 9 and the MR head 8 on the DISK 10 are performed by S.
Controlled by RVC5.

The WSPC 2 includes a modulation circuit (ENC) 15, a parallel / serial data conversion circuit (P / S) 14, a recording correction circuit (WPC) 12, and a precoder (PRECODER) 1.
3, a synthesizer (WVCO) 16, a recording current setting circuit (IWC) 60, and the like.

The recording information from the HDC 4 is converted to information suitable for magnetic recording by the ENC 15, further converted to a serial bit string by the P / S 14,
Implemented in RECODER13. Thereafter, the reversal position of the recording current is corrected by the WPC 12 so that the bit string is recorded at a predetermined position, and is output to the HDA 1. In addition, IWC
The output current value of the register 60 (the register group (RS
IF). Also, the ENC 15 monitors the record information from the HDC 4, and when a sync byte immediately after the preamble and immediately before the user data is detected, the PREC 15
Coder 13 is reset just before the sync byte,
The sync byte is always recorded with the same magnetization pattern.

RSPC3 is a variable gain amplifier (VG)
A) 17 and gain control circuit (GCC) 29 and current output type A
An automatic gain adjustment circuit (AGC) including a DAC for GC (VDAC) 30, a voltage controlled oscillator (RVCO) 28, a phase control circuit (PCC) 26, and a DA for current output type PLL
C (PDAC) 27 and an automatic phase locked loop (PL)
L), programmable filter (LPF) 18, A / D
A converter (ADC) 19, a digital transversal equalizer (TREQ) 20, a (1 + D) processing circuit (1+
D) 21, a maximum likelihood decoder (ML) 22, a serial / parallel data conversion circuit (S / P) 23, a demodulation circuit (DEC) 24, and a sync byte detection circuit (SYNCDET) 25.
Further, a coefficient correction circuit (CCMP) 31, an error detection circuit (ERRC) 32, a sense current setting circuit (ISC) 61
Are provided. Here, especially CCMP31, ER
The configuration of RC32, TREQ20, and the like, and their relationship are characteristic features of the present invention.

During a normal reproduction operation, the reproduction signal from the HDA 1 is divided into the VGA 17, the LPF 18, the ADC 19, and the TRE.
It is equalized to the output waveform of PR4 via Q20 and (1 + D) 21. At this time, simultaneously, the AGC control works so that the output of (1 + D) 21 has a constant signal amplitude.
+ D) PLL control works so that the sample phase at the output of 21 is correct. Further, the PR4 waveform is identified by the ML 22 and is reproduced as user data via the S / P 23 and the DEC 24. The SYNCDET 25 fixes the conversion timing of the S / P 23 when the sync byte is detected.

The detailed configuration of the equalization circuit 20, and the configurations and operations of the coefficient correction circuit 31 and the error detection circuit 32 will be described later. Here, the TREQ 20 and the ML 22 are constituted by digital circuits.
It can be easily applied to a signal processing circuit equipped with. However, a digital circuit is more practical and preferable, including adjustment by calculation and the like. Hereinafter, an embodiment will be described mainly with respect to an example employing a digital system. The LPF 18 may or may not have a boost mechanism.

The SPIF 33 includes a scrambler, a descrambler, an interface circuit with the HDC 4, a register interface (RSIF) 34 of each circuit, and the like.
This circuit block inputs and outputs recording data and reproduction data to and from the HDC 4 during normal recording and reproduction. Also, C
The register contents of the various circuit blocks are set with the NT6, and the register values are output.

HDC 4 includes an error correction circuit (ECC) and the like. ECC is added to the user data and recorded as recording data on the DISK 10.
CC is also played. An error in the user data is detected or corrected based on the reproduced ECC data.

The SRVC 5 includes a peak hold circuit (P / H) for servo position information, a control circuit (SCNT) 36 for head seek and disk rotation, and a driver (S
DRV) 35 and the like. LPF by instruction from CNT6
Analyzing the reproduction waveform of No. 18 and controlling head seek and rotation of the disk.

The CNT 6 controls communication with the device bus (BU)
SC), HDA1, WSPC2, RSPC3, SRV
C5 and other controls are included. Mainly, each circuit block inside the HDD 7 is controlled in accordance with a recording / reproducing command from a host computer to which the magnetic disk device (HDD) 7 of the present embodiment is connected.

In this embodiment, among these circuits, WS
All of PC, RSPC, SPIF and part of SRVC,
It is incorporated in a signal processing LSI (SPLSI) 38.

Next, the configurations of the equalizing circuit 20 and the coefficient correcting circuit 31 will be described with reference to FIG.

Attention is paid to the register 42 for setting the tap coefficient of the equalizing circuit 20. The center tap (K0) is a coefficient among the tap coefficients (K0, K ± 1, K ± 2, K ± 3) of the equalizer 20 using a transversal type equalization circuit (TREQ) 20 of 7 taps. Is fixed at K0 = “1”,
The tap coefficients (K ± 1) on both sides are set to the same value (K + 1 = K−
1) A common register is used. Although the example of FIG. 8 describes an example of seven taps, basically, it is sufficient that the number of taps is five or more as described above. In the embodiment, the channel density of the signal input to the equalization circuit is S = PW50 /
In consideration of the case where Tb> 2, seven taps are set. Here, 39 is a delay element, 40 is a multiplier, and 41 is an adder. It is apparent that the two data at the tap positions corresponding to the same tap coefficient may be added to each other and then multiplied by a single multiplier.

The coefficient correction circuit 31 includes a simple identification circuit 43 that outputs only the positive and negative signs of the input signal (ADC output) of the equalization circuit 20 for each bit, and an identification circuit 44 including a 1 + D output signal and a comparator, for example. Adder 41 as an error calculation circuit for calculating error signal e from
Delay element 39 for delaying the output signal of
Coefficient correction amount calculating circuit (DELTAK) for correcting the coefficient correction amount from the correlation value between the output signal of the error calculating circuit and the output signal e of the error calculating circuit.
CAL) 45.

The operation of the equalization circuit (TREQ) 20 and coefficient correction circuit (CCMP) 31 during coefficient correction will be described. Here, the CCMP 31 is a circuit that corrects the tap coefficient of the TREQ 20 so that PR4 equalization can be accurately performed with the output of (1 + D) 21, and is not activated during a normal reproduction operation.

The coefficient correction is performed according to the following procedure. First, a random data pattern is recorded in an appropriate area on the magnetic disk. Next, the random data pattern is reproduced after the CCMP 31 is set in the operating state. As a result, the input signal (AD
The C output signal) and the signal (1 + D output signal) subjected to 1 + D processing via the equalization circuit 20 are sequentially input to the CCMP 31. The ADC output signal is encoded by SDET 43, and its output is sequentially shifted by delay element 39. At this time, the error signal e calculated by the identification circuit 44 and the adder 41 and the output of the delay element 39 are input to the DELTAKCAL 45, and the tap coefficients of the coefficient register 42 are corrected.

The tap coefficient correction operation of TREQ 20
During the operation period of the CMP 31, the updating is successively continued.

At this time, among the tap coefficients of the equalizing circuit 20, the coefficient (K ± 1) on both sides of the center tap greatly affects the amplitude characteristic and the phase characteristic. If the coefficient value is set so as to allow K + 1 ≠ K−1 in the successive correction process, the equalization circuit 20 itself has a phase characteristic. As a result, the synchronized phase (sample timing of the ADC 19) of the automatic phase locked loop (PLL) shown in FIG. 1 is shifted. Since the coefficient correction circuit (CCMP) 31 gives the phase characteristic irrespective of the PLL, the phase characteristic is not determined, and the coefficient value corrected by the CCMP 31 is not stable. If the sample timing shifts extremely, the error in the output of the equalizer circuit also increases, and the PLL loses synchronization when the balance between the tap coefficients K + 1 and K-1 shifts extremely.

According to the present embodiment, by adding the constraint of K + 1 = K-1, there is almost no change in the phase characteristic caused by the unbalance of the tap coefficients of the equalizing circuit even in the coefficient correction process. Therefore, competition with the phase characteristics of the automatic phase synchronization circuit can be avoided, and the coefficient correction can be performed with high accuracy even with the coefficient correction circuit of the sequential correction type. Also, by fixing the coefficient of the center tap to “1”, it is possible to avoid competition with the automatic gain adjustment circuit (AGC).

As the coefficient correction algorithm, for example, a generally known CLMS (clip tree mean square) can be used.

FIG. 9 shows an alternative example of the equalizing circuit 20 according to the present invention.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

In this example, a 7-tap transversal type equalizing circuit 20 is used. Of the tap coefficients 42 of the equalization circuit 20, tap coefficients (K + 1 and K-1, K + 2 and K-2, K + 3 and K-
3) have the same value. The data at the second half tap position is added to the data at the first half tap position by the adder 41 and input to the multipliers 40 respectively.

According to this example, the size of the register 42 can be reduced. Further, in the coefficient correction process of the equalization circuit 20, no competition occurs in the phase characteristics between the equalization circuit 20 and the PLL.

At this time, the CCMP 31 is connected to the delay element 3
Since one coefficient can be corrected by an average correlation signal obtained by adding a plurality of latch data of nine, a stable coefficient correction can be performed. As for the circuit scale of the CCMP 31, the coefficient to be corrected is about １ ／ as compared with the case where all taps are asymmetric, so that the circuit scale can be about ２. Since the number of the multipliers 40, which are the largest components, is about 1/2 of the circuit scale of the equalization circuit 20 itself, the circuit scale can be about 1/2.

Incidentally, the front-back symmetry Tas of the input waveform (isolated waveform) corresponding to the isolated magnetization in which the present modified example is effective is 7% or less. Since the performance of the integrated circuit cannot be exhibited, the performance of the device is greatly deteriorated.

At this time, the anteroposterior symmetry Tas of the isolated waveform is
Assuming that the leading edge of the half-value width PW50 is T1 and the trailing edge is T2, it is defined as Tas = | T1-T2 | / PW50 (PW50 = T1 + T2).

FIG. 10 shows still another embodiment of the equalization circuit 20.

In this example, a 7-tap transversal equalizer circuit 20 is used, and the setting of the negative coefficient value of the equalizer circuit 20 is used by inverting the output of the tap delay element 39 to obtain a positive coefficient. It is configured so that it can be set with numerical values.

In the case of a waveform having a relatively monotonous tail, such as an isolated magnetization reproduction waveform of magnetic recording, the tap coefficient of the transversal equalizer for equalizing this waveform is represented by the sign of the center tap coefficient. If the sign is positive, the sign is alternately switched to negative, positive, negative, positive,... Toward both sides.

According to the present embodiment, it is possible to invert and output the data at the tap position which is presumed to be a negative coefficient, and as a result, the sign of the coefficient bit of the equalization circuit is lost, and The circuit scale of the circuit is reduced. Also, the scale of the register for setting the coefficient is reduced. It is clear that the same effect can be obtained even if the coefficient value is inverted.

Next, the configuration and operation of the coefficient correction circuit (CCMP) 31 of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The CCMP 31 according to the present embodiment converts the input signal (ADC output) of the equalization circuit 20 into (1 + D) processing circuit 2
An error calculation for calculating an error signal e from a simple identification circuit 43 that outputs only positive and negative signs for each bit after performing (1 + D) processing in 1 and an identification circuit 44 composed of a 1 + D output signal and a comparator, for example An adder 41 as a circuit and a delay element 39 for delaying an output signal of the simple identification circuit 43
A multiplier 40 as a correlation value calculation circuit for calculating a correlation value between the output signal of the delay element 39 and the output signal e of the error calculation means; and a correlation value addition circuit for sequentially adding the output signals of the multiplier 40. An adder 41, a coefficient correction direction calculation circuit (CCAL) 48 for calculating a coefficient correction amount from a signal obtained by adding the output signal of the adder 41 a fixed number of times, and a coefficient value of the equalization circuit corrected by the output signal of the CCAL 48, for example. A coefficient error correction circuit (COUNTE) composed of an up / down counter
R) 49, a coefficient input / output control circuit (IOSEL) 50 composed of switches for controlling the input and output of coefficient values, and a tap number setting switch (TAPSW) 46.

The correlation value adding circuit (adder) according to the present embodiment
41 suspends the sequential addition of the correlation values for a certain period after performing the coefficient correction. Specifically, the adder 41 sequentially adds the data at the same rate as the data cycle with the addition clock CLK1, and the added data is COUN by the CCAL 48.
It is converted into an up / down signal of TER49. CLK
After 32 addition operations are performed at 1, COUNTER 49 receives an up / down signal by CLK2, and the tap coefficient value input to COUNTER 49 via IOSEL 50 is updated. The updated tap coefficient value is reflected on the equalization circuit 20 via the IOSEL 50 by the gate signal SGT. At this time, CCMP31
Since the 1 + D output signal, which is the input signal of (1), is not immediately output with the updated tap coefficient value, after a certain period (for example, the delay time of the equalization circuit 20 and the 1 + D processing circuit 21) has elapsed, the reset signal RS is correlated. The information is input to the value addition circuit 41, and the information on the addition of the correlation value at the tap coefficient value before updating is discarded. Further, the TAPSW 46 is controlled by the set value of the tap number setting register 47, and when five taps are set, coefficient correction is not performed at the tap position of the coefficient (K ± 3) of the transversal equalizer circuit 20 of seven taps.
In this case, the coefficient (K ± 3) is always “0” and the coefficient (K
The operation of the coefficient correction part corresponding to ± 3) is stopped.

According to the present embodiment, the correlation data is not obtained while correcting the coefficient, but by providing an idle period, the accumulation of the correlation data is always performed under a constant tap coefficient value. . Therefore, CLMS (Clip Trial Mean Square) which is a conventional coefficient correction algorithm
Oscillating error due to loop delay (delay caused by TREQ 20 or coefficient correction circuit 31) that may occur in LMS (Least Mean Square) or LMS (Least Mean Square) does not occur. It is essentially an open loop, and signal processing such as averaging (corresponding to the correlation value calculating means in this means) can be sufficiently performed without making the loop delay a problem (in the present embodiment, the number of times is 32 times). Optional), higher accuracy can be expected. Further, in the present embodiment, the convergence time is short because a plurality of taps are simultaneously updated as the tap coefficient. Although depending on the number of additions, the learning amount of about one sector (several thousands of bits) sufficiently converges.

If the resolution of the signal input to the equalization circuit 20 is relatively high and the symmetry is good, the number of taps can be reduced. According to the present embodiment, compared to a case where only the coefficient values at both ends of the coefficient obtained by the coefficient correction of 7 taps are set to “0” and applied to the equalization circuit, a good coefficient with no coefficient truncation error occurs. Can be equalized. Further, since the output of the gate at the portion where the tap coefficient is "0" is fixed and switching is not performed, current consumption at this portion is reduced, and power consumption of the circuit can be reduced.

In this embodiment, the input signal (ADC output) of the equalization circuit 20 is subjected to partial response waveform processing (1
+ D processing) 21 and used for the coefficient correction circuit 31 as shown in FIG.
It is obvious that the configuration can be made without using this as in the case of the above. The output of the simple identification circuit 43 may be not only the code but also a plurality of bits.

The correction amount is calculated from the correlation signal between the error signal obtained by the DET 44 and the signal after the simple identification (SDET 43) of the signal obtained by subjecting the input signal of the equalization circuit 20 to the partial response waveform processing, thereby obtaining the signal of the correlation signal. The noise-to-noise ratio is improved. As a result, the convergence of coefficient correction is improved, so that a means for storing a data pattern is unnecessary.

According to this embodiment, coefficient correction can be performed with a random arbitrary data pattern, and coefficient correction can be performed at a user site. Therefore, even when the characteristics of the head medium change over time, for example, if the coefficient correction is performed when the power is turned on, the optimum equalization circuit conditions can always be maintained on the apparatus. Further, since the coefficient correction circuit does not specify a data pattern necessary for performing coefficient correction, there is no need to store a data pattern inside or outside the device, and the circuit scale can be reduced.

On the other hand, in a magnetic disk device, the combination of a disk and a head is generally the same, so that a coefficient correction operation is not performed at a user site, and sufficient performance can be maintained only by performing a coefficient correction operation at the time of shipment of the device. There is. In this case, it is possible to ship after erasing the random data pattern for coefficient correction on the magnetic disk used at the time of coefficient correction. Since this area can be used as a storage area for user data, the format efficiency of the apparatus can be improved.

Further, an alternative modification of the coefficient correction circuit (CCMP) 31 will be described with reference to FIG.

In this embodiment, a selection circuit (TAPSEL) comprising a switch for selecting a tap coefficient to be corrected
51, a coefficient correction amount calculating circuit (DELETEKCAL) 45 described in detail in FIG. 11, and a coefficient temporary holding circuit (COEFTEMPRSS) 52 including a register for temporarily holding the corrected tap coefficient value. The selection circuit 51 and the coefficient temporary holding circuit 52 work together, and the selection circuit 51 selects a fixed tap position when calculating the correction amount of each tap coefficient value. The tap positions were selected in the order from the one closest to the center (basically the order is not important). Selection circuit 51
At the time when the coefficient value of each tap coefficient is determined by the coefficient temporary holding circuit 52, all the tap coefficients are set in the coefficient register 42 (by the signal KS).

According to the present embodiment, as described with reference to FIG. 11, the coefficient correction circuit 31 according to the present invention is basically open loop. Therefore, if the linearity and randomness of the signal input to the equalization circuit 20 can be guaranteed, it is not necessary to correct each tap coefficient with the same information (simultaneously). As shown in this means, tap coefficients can be corrected in a time-division manner by using the selection circuit 51 and the coefficient temporary holding circuit 52, thereby greatly reducing the circuit scale.

Further, another embodiment of the coefficient correction circuit (CCMP) 31 will be described with reference to FIG.

In this example, the coefficient correction circuit 3 of the equalization circuit 20
The output signal of the ADC 19 and the 1 + D output signal, which are the input signals of 1, are input and operated with the thinned clock. In this embodiment, the decimation number is 1, and the frequency of the decimation clock is の of the data clock frequency. SDET4
Two sequences are used: a sequence in which the output of No. 3 is latched by the data clock and then thinned out, and a sequence in which the output is directly thinned out. As a result, an input signal corresponding to each tap position of the TREQ 20 can be obtained with the thinned clock.

As described above, in the coefficient correction circuit according to the present invention, it is sufficient that an error signal between the input signal of the equalizer circuit and the output signal of the equalizer circuit corresponding to the tap coefficient position is obtained. Therefore, it is not always necessary to obtain the error signal between the input signal of the equalization circuit and the output signal of the equalization circuit continuously, and it is possible to thin out as in the present means.

According to this embodiment, by thinning out,
The operating frequency of the coefficient correction circuit can be reduced to 1 / (the number of thinnings + 1), and the power consumption during the coefficient correction operation can be significantly reduced without increasing the circuit scale.

Further, with reference to FIG. 14, an alternative example of the means for obtaining the coefficient will be described.

In this example, the coefficient correction of the equalization circuit is performed externally, and the coefficient correction circuit 31 is not used.

In this embodiment, the signal (output of the ADC 19) input to the transversal type equalizing circuit 20 is held in a data section having a length of at least twice the number of all taps of the equalizing circuit 20 at the data clock cycle. And a selection circuit (CLKSEL) including a switch for outputting data by switching data held in the data holding circuit 53 to a clock (read clock) different from the data clock. 54 is used.

As a method of obtaining the tap coefficients of the equalizer circuit 20, in addition to the above-described successive correction type, a considerable amount of input signals of the equalizer circuit are stored in a serial manner, and an ideal output corresponding to these input signal trains is stored. There is a method of obtaining a generally well-known Wiener filter (filter having a tap coefficient that minimizes a square error) by giving a column.

Using this embodiment, it is possible to take out the stored data to the outside and obtain an optimal solution by matrix operation using an external personal computer, the controller CNT6 in the magnetic disk device, or the like.

According to the present embodiment, the data section length of the data holding circuit 53 can be reduced to about twice the number of taps of the equalizing circuit by devising a pattern or the like, which is different from the case where a coefficient correcting circuit is configured. However, there is a possibility that the circuit size can be reduced. However, it is clear that a longer data section length can avoid the influence of noise, so that a better tap coefficient can be obtained.

Next, an error detection circuit (ERRC) 32 which is a circuit for optimizing each parameter of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

The circuit 32 includes a second identification circuit (DET2) 55 composed of, for example, a comparator, which has the same input signal as the input of the identification circuit (ML) 22, an input signal and an output signal of the second identification circuit 55. From the adder 41 as an error calculation circuit for calculating an error signal in the second identification circuit, and a comparator that sets a fixed threshold (register 57) and outputs a count signal with an error signal equal to or larger than the threshold. A determination circuit (DIST) 56 and a counter (COUNTER) 49 that counts a count signal.

The error signal between the input signal to the discriminating circuit in the signal processing circuit and the target amplitude of the equalizing circuit is obtained by the second discriminating circuit and the error calculating circuit (ie, adder 41). This error signal is compared with a fixed threshold value set in the discriminating means, and the discrimination output is set to "1" when the error signal is equal to or larger than the threshold value, and is set to "0" otherwise. The above counter counts up only when the output of the discrimination circuit is "1".
In this embodiment, DET2 is a discriminator for each bit. However, the ML22 in FIG. 1 may be used instead of DET2.

The error signal in the error detection circuit is positively or negatively distributed with "0" as a center as shown in FIG. Therefore, the ratio of the count to the total population is determined by the variance value of the error signal and the threshold value of the determination circuit.
That is, the variance of the error signal can be obtained if all parameters, thresholds, and counts are determined. Generally, the performance (BER) of the identification circuit in the device is determined by the signal quality (eg, variance) input to the identification circuit. Therefore, the BER of the device can be estimated by calculating the variance.

In optimizing each parameter, it is sufficient to detect a difference in variance value caused by changing a set value of each parameter. By individually extracting each factor that governs the device performance and obtaining a parameter value that minimizes the error (variance), each parameter can be optimized.

According to the present embodiment, the accuracy of the population ratio is set to the error 1
The parameter (the number of samples) required to achieve 2% is thousands, and an information amount of several hundred bytes (approximately one sector) is sufficient.

Therefore, the time required is about 1 / 100,000 compared to the conventional optimization based on BER measurement. For this reason, optimization of parameters requiring more optimization can be performed relatively easily in a short time, and improvement in device performance can be expected. Further, a reduction in apparatus cost due to a reduction in adjustment time can be expected.

The error detection circuit can be easily provided outside the apparatus as a jig for adjusting the magnetic disk drive by providing an output monitor or the like in the equalization circuit.

In the above embodiment, the discrimination level to be compared by the discrimination circuit 55 is fixed.
6 may be modified so that the identification level of the second identification circuit (DET2) 55 shown in FIG.

If the discrimination level of the second discrimination circuit of the error detection circuit can be arbitrarily set, discrimination can be performed by changing the threshold value. At this time, the following advantages are obtained. Usually the second
Is used to identify the three values of +1, 0, and -1.
It has binary identification levels of +0.5 and -0.5. Here, for example, when a data pattern that can take only binary values of +1 and −1 is identified as an output data pattern of the equalization circuit, an identification error is likely to occur at the above-described identification level depending on the magnitude of an error or noise.

According to the present embodiment, if the threshold value (identification level register value) is set close to "0", the circuit can be operated substantially as a binary identification circuit, and the identification performance is improved (noise resistance). And the error signal can obtain a more accurate value. Therefore, more accurate device optimization can be achieved.

It is also possible to add a register 59 to set the number of identification levels of the second identification circuit (DET2) 55.

If the second discriminating circuit can be operated as a binary output (+1, -1) discriminating circuit having one threshold value (0), the discriminating performance can be improved in a specific data pattern (noise immunity). Is improved by a factor of two).
In this embodiment, the register 59 sets the number of identification levels (0, 1, 2) of the second identification circuit. When the number of identification levels, that is, the value of the register 59 is “2”, the value set in the register 58 is a positive / negative threshold (if the value of the register 58 is 0.5, the thresholds are −0.5 and +0). .5) operates as an identification circuit for ternary outputs (+1, 0, -1). When the number of identification levels is "1", the threshold value is "0" regardless of the register 58 and the binary output is performed. When the (+1, -1) discriminating circuit and the register 59 are "0", the output of DET2 operates to be "0".

According to this embodiment, the discrimination level can be arbitrarily set only by the register 58. Further, by using the registers 58 and 59 together, an error signal can be obtained more accurately. When the number of identification levels is set to "0", an input signal to the ML can be directly input to the determination means.

The optimization of the recording current value using the error detection circuit 32 of the embodiment according to the present invention will be described.

In the optimization of the recording current value using this embodiment, the recording current setting register, the recording current setting circuit 60 and the recording current output terminal of the signal processing circuit 38 are used.

The relationship between the recording current value of the recording head 9 of the magnetic disk device 7 and the reproduction output amplitude input to the signal processing circuit 38 is almost as shown in FIG. Generally, the larger the reproduction output amplitude detected by the reproduction head 8, the better the quality of the reproduction signal. At this time, for example, the input signal of the identification means (ML) 22 of the signal processing circuit 38 is... +1, +1, -1, -1,-
When repetitive data is recorded so as to be a signal corresponding to the 1, + 1, + 1..pattern, an automatic gain adjustment circuit (A
According to GC), the average signal amplitude is only two levels of positive and negative equalization target values, and there is no level corresponding to “0”. The smaller the reproduction output amplitude, the higher the ratio of noise to the signal, so that the error signal increases and the variance of the signal input to the discriminating means of the error detection circuit 32 also increases as shown in FIG.

Therefore, the discriminating means of the error detecting circuit 32 discriminates with an appropriate negative threshold value, and the case where the discrimination value is equal to or more than the threshold value is carried out every time recording is performed by changing the recording current value, thereby maximizing the count value. (Ie, the signal-to-noise ratio is maximized)
It is possible to determine the recording current value in that case. In the reproduction of the recording signal having the specific pattern, since the signal has almost only a single frequency component, errors in the equalizing circuit and the like, errors in the recording correction circuit, non-linearity of the reproducing head, and the like affect the reproduction. This makes it difficult to optimize the recording current with high accuracy. It is apparent that high performance can be achieved by changing the threshold value of the discriminating means and using the results of measurement a plurality of times, for example, by avoiding the accuracy deterioration due to the DC offset.

Next, the error detection circuit 3 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
2 will be described.

In the optimization of the sense current value using the present embodiment, the signal processing circuit 38 uses the sense current setting register, the sense current setting circuit 61 and the sense current output terminal of the reproducing head 8.

When the magnetoresistive element is used as the reproducing head 8 of the magnetic disk drive 7, if the bias magnetization of the head 8 is not optimized, a phenomenon occurs in which the amplitude of the reproduced waveform differs depending on the polarity of the isolated magnetization. Since the isolated waveform is AC-coupled and input to the signal processing circuit 38, the 0 level of the identification signal is shifted as shown in FIG. Therefore, recording is performed in a recording pattern that minimizes the magnetization density as the magnetization state on the magnetic disk, and every time the sense current is changed, error detection by the ERRC 32 described below is performed.

That is, the number of identification levels of the second identification circuit is set to "
0, the input signal of the discriminating circuit is output to the discriminating means as it is, and the threshold value of the discriminating means is set to "0", and the case where the threshold value is equal to or more than "0" for a certain period is counted. If the bias magnetization is not optimized and the amplitude ratio is different, the average value of the error signal is "
Since it deviates from “0”, the ratio of the count value to the total parameter deviates from な お. When the input signal of the identification circuit 22 is quantized, the count ratio is slightly larger in setting the optimum sense current. It is clear that the number of bits for quantization needs to be considered in order to shift to.

According to this embodiment, the average value of the error signal is
By selecting a sense current value whose deviation from 0 "is equal to or less than the reference value and which has the smallest variance, the sense current can be optimized. At this time, the coefficient value of the equalizing circuit and the recording The correction amount does not need to be optimized.

Next, the error detection circuit 3 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
The optimization of the DC offset correction amount of the ADC using the method 2 will be described.

In the optimization of the DC offset correction amount of the ADC using the present embodiment, an offset setting circuit 62 for DC offset correction and an offset correction register are used in the ADC 19, and the offset amount in the no-signal state is determined by the error detection circuit 3.
Detect at 2.

The average value of the error signal is obtained by making the input signal of the discriminating circuit 22 to be almost only random small circuit noise and performing error detection by the error detecting circuit 32 every time the offset correction amount is changed. The offset correction amount with the smallest deviation from “0” is defined as the optimum offset correction amount. The equalizing circuit 20 and the identification circuit (ML) 2
When 2 is an analog circuit, it is clear that it is appropriate to provide the offset setting circuit 62 at the input portion of the ML 22.

According to this embodiment, it is possible to relatively easily adjust the offset of the circuit section. The coefficient value of the equalizing circuit may be basically arbitrary.

As yet another alternative, the method of detecting the offset may be different from that described above.

In the optimization of the DC offset correction amount of the ADC using this embodiment, a signal of a single frequency is input to the signal processing circuit 38 by using an offset setting circuit 62 for DC offset correction and an offset correction register. The error detection circuit 32 is used.

The recording data is set to a single recording frequency, and an error is detected in the same manner as in the description of the optimization of the recording current value shown in the above embodiment. When an offset occurs, the AGC or PL is corrected so as to correct the offset to the equalization target value at the input of the identification circuit.
Although control of L is applied, since AGC and PLL basically do not have a function of correcting an offset, as a result of the control operation, jitter (noise) increases or a deviation from an equalization target value occurs. Therefore, by performing error detection every time the setting of the offset correction amount is changed, the offset correction amount that minimizes the variance of the error of the input of the identification circuit 22 is searched, and the offset correction amount at this time is determined as the optimum offset correction amount. And

According to this embodiment, the same means as in the above-described optimization of the recording current value can be used. Therefore, prior to the optimization of the recording current, the offset adjustment described in this embodiment can be performed, and the adjustment time can be reduced. Note that the coefficient value, the recording correction amount, the recording current value, the sense current value, and the like of the equalizing circuit may be basically arbitrary.

Next, the error detection circuit 3 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
The optimization of the tap coefficient value of the equalization circuit 20 using 2 will be described.

In optimizing the tap coefficient value of the equalization circuit 20 using the present embodiment, the coefficient correction circuit 3 uses an error detection circuit 32 and a coefficient value register for giving characteristics to the equalization circuit 20.
Do not use 1. In a specific recording / reproducing area, the coefficient correction circuit 3
When coefficient correction using 1 is performed, there are cases where the coefficient values of other adjacent regions can be roughly estimated. In this case, error detection is performed using the estimated coefficient value set in the coefficient value register, and it is determined whether to use the coefficient value estimated based on the error value.

At this time, the recording data is random data, and the number of identification levels of the second identification circuit is "2".

According to the present embodiment, even during normal user data reproduction, the coefficient value is set in the coefficient value register, and the error amount is checked by the error detection circuit 32 to determine whether the coefficient value is appropriate. Can be determined. Moreover,
It is also possible to prepare several types of possible combinations of coefficient values and to select and adopt a coefficient value having the smallest variance of the equalization error from these.

Next, the error detection circuit 3 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
2 will be described.

In the optimization of the recording correction amount using this embodiment, the correction value register of the recording correction circuit 12 for correcting the magnetization reversal position at the time of data recording according to the data sequence is used.

When the recording density is increased and the bit interval is reduced, a phenomenon occurs in which the magnetization reversal position is reduced. For this purpose, the recording correction circuit 12 estimates the amount of magnetization movement in advance from the recording data sequence, and performs recording while correcting the magnetization reversal position. At this time, it is determined whether or not the correction has been correctly made by using an error detection circuit.

At this time, the recording data is made random data, recorded by changing the correction value register of the recording correction circuit 12, and an error is detected each time the recorded data is reproduced. The recording correction amount can be optimized by selecting the recording correction value that minimizes the variance of the input error of the identification circuit.

Another modification of the above-described error detection circuit 32 will be described with reference to FIG.

In this example, a discriminating circuit 56 which takes an input signal of the discriminating circuit 22 as an input signal and outputs a count signal with an input signal equal to or more than a threshold value, a counter 49 which counts the count signal outputted from the discriminating circuit 56, And a register 57 for setting a threshold value.

According to the present embodiment, the input signal of the discriminating circuit is made to be almost only random circuit noise, and error detection is carried out every time the setting of the offset correction amount is changed. The offset correction amount can be optimized by selecting the offset correction amount having the smallest deviation of the average value of the error signal from “0”. Similarly, it is possible to optimize the sense current of the magnetoresistive read head.

The error detection circuit 32 of the present invention shown in FIG.
Another modified example will be described with reference to FIG.

The error detection circuit 32 receives the input signal of the discrimination circuit 22 as an input signal, and outputs a count signal with an input signal less than the threshold, and a first discrimination circuit 5
6, a second determination circuit 561 that outputs a count signal with an input signal exceeding a threshold value, and a second determination circuit 56.
A second counter 491 for counting the count signal output from 1; an adder 41 for subtracting the count value of the second counter 491 from the count value of the first counting means 49; and a register 57 for setting a threshold value. Having.

According to the present embodiment, the offset adjustment can be optimized and the sense current of the magnetoresistive read head can be optimized by directly counting the error of the output signal of the equalizing circuit.

The error detection circuit 32 of the present invention shown in FIG.
Still another modified example will be described with reference to FIG.

In this embodiment, the error detection circuit 32 shown in the embodiment of FIG. 17 or FIG. 18 is used, and a signal excluding the sign bit (SB) among the input signals of the identification circuit 22 is used as an input signal.

Excluding the sign bit of the input signal of the discriminating circuit (the output signal of the equalizing circuit), the signal at this time is converted into a positive signal when the original signal is negative, and changes when the original signal is positive. No (when the original signal is a two's complement representation). When the output signal of the equalizer circuit is +1, +1, -1, -1, +1, +1,-
In the case where the frequency component is almost a single frequency such as 1, -1, ‥, the signal excluding the sign bit at this time is converted as shown in FIG.

According to the present embodiment, if the threshold value of the determination means is set near the equalization target value of the equalization circuit, the variance of the error from the target value can be detected.

The error detection circuit 32 of the present invention shown in FIG.
Still another modified example will be described with reference to FIG.

In this example, another error detection circuit different from the above error detection circuit is used.

The error detection circuit 32 shown in the embodiment of FIG. 18 or FIG. 19 and FIG. 20 is used. Among the input signals of the identification circuit 22, there are a first mode in which a signal excluding a sign bit (SB) is an input signal, and a second mode in which a sign bit (SB) is also an input signal, and switching of modes. Is set in the register 64.

According to the present embodiment, the circuit becomes simpler than using the second identification circuit, and the offset adjustment, the optimization of the recording current, and the optimization of the sense current can be performed by almost the same method. .

Next, the reset means of the PRECODER 13 of the present invention will be described.

In this embodiment, in order to improve the reliability of recording and reproduction of a specific recording data pattern necessary for optimizing various parameters, the precoder 1
3 is used for resetting immediately before "sync byte" which is a byte indicating the start of data.

According to this embodiment, the magnetization state of the data pattern after the sync byte can be defined, and a specific pattern necessary for optimizing the above parameters can be recorded.
Further, a specific pattern to be recorded at the time of checking at the time of shipment of the magnetic disk device 7 can also be recorded while defining the magnetization state, and the reliability of the device can be expected to be improved.

FIG. 2 shows the sync byte code string of the present invention.
1 and FIG.

In the present embodiment, in order to improve the reliability of recording and reproduction of a specific recording data pattern required for optimizing various parameters, a code string corresponding to a sync byte according to the present invention is provided to the sync byte detecting circuit 25. Apply The code string corresponding to the sync byte is set in the register 68, and this is compared with the code string of the ML output by the logical element EOR circuit (EOR) 66, and all the output bits are processed by the logical element NOR circuit (NOR) 67. By doing so, a sync byte detection signal is formed, and the detection result is stored in SPIF3
3 to the HDC 4. Here, as shown in FIG. 22, magnetization reversal occurs at data "1" and data "0".
In this case, a recording method is used in which the recording current direction is maintained, and the beginning of the serial data starts with "0", and a code string of sync bytes in which data "1" does not continuously exist in the serial data sequence. Further, in addition to the above embodiment, “0” and “0” of the code string in the ML output corresponding to the sync byte are output.
A series of “1” is a code string “0” and “0” in the ML output corresponding to the preceding byte that is continuously recorded before the sync byte.
The code sequence is a sync byte code sequence that differs from the sequence of “1” by at least の of the data sequence. In this case, the code sequence (NRZI) is “001000100” and the ML is
"00110011" is stored in the register 68 corresponding to the output.
0 "is set.

According to this embodiment, the sync byte which does not interfere with the data pattern of the preceding byte for the automatic gain adjustment circuit and the automatic phase synchronization circuit which are recorded in advance and which hardly causes nonlinear distortion at the time of recording. It is possible to do. Therefore, the sync byte can be detected relatively easily even if the recording current, the sense current, and the coefficient of the equalizing circuit are not optimized.

As another embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a target amplitude value setting means for making a target amplitude value of an automatic gain adjustment circuit (AGC) variable by setting a register is GC.
Used for C29.

According to this embodiment, when the resolution of the input signal is low, the signal can be prevented from being saturated in each part of the signal processing circuit by reducing the target amplitude value of the AGC. Noise.
On the other hand, when the resolution of the input signal is high, the ratio of the quantization noise of the ADC 19, the circuit noise generated by the VGA 17 and the LPF 18 to the signal noise can be reduced by increasing the target amplitude value of the AGC. Performance (eg, BER) can be improved.

Another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In this example, the present invention is applied to a two-chip signal processing LS
I is applied to a magnetic disk drive.

It is preferable that the present invention can be realized as a one-chip LSI including all the components for signal processing. However, when power consumption is large, it is preferable to divide the chip into two or more chips.

In order to solve such a problem, in this embodiment, the LSI is roughly divided into an LSI having a two-chip configuration of an analog chip 38-A and a digital chip 38-D, and an automatic gain adjustment circuit ( AGC) and the output of each control circuit of the automatic phase locked loop (PLL) are output as pins via current output type ADAC 30 and PDAC 27,
Variable gain amplifier (VGA) for analog chip 38-A
17 and a voltage controlled oscillator (RVCO) 28. In addition, VGA17,
LPF18, ADC19, RVCO28, WVCO1
6, a P / H 69 and a comparator (CMP) 70 for a gray code of a servo signal.

According to this embodiment, the digital chip is
By outputting with an AC current, the influence of noise that can be mixed in from its own chip can be reduced, and the number of pins can be significantly reduced as compared with the case of outputting as a digital signal of several bits. ADCs, RVCOs, and WVCOs that require an analog design method and a layout method are preferably disposed on an analog chip from the viewpoint of performance, circuit scale, and power consumption. Of course, it is also possible to arrange them on a digital chip, in which case the number of signal pins between the analog and digital chips can be further reduced.

In this embodiment, the signal interface between the signal processing LSI and other circuit portions of the magnetic disk device has the following features.

First, a reproduction signal from the R / WIC which is an analog signal, a setting signal of a recording current and a sense current, and a P / H output signal are input / output to / from an analog LSI.
Second, signals between the HDC and CNT, which are digital signals, are digital input / output.

Third, analog LSI and digital LSI
Are the digital signal after ADC, RVCO, V
This is a DAC current signal that is a control signal of the GA.

By adopting the two-chip configuration, it is possible to separately select a process design method, a manufacturing method, and the like for each chip, and it is expected that individual performance will be improved and development efficiency will be improved. For example, an analog chip has a good analog characteristic and a proven track record of bipolar and BiCM.
The digital chip can be manufactured by an OS process, and the digital chip can be manufactured by a CMOS process in which power consumption can be easily reduced. Of course, it is also possible to make them by the same process, for example, a BiCMOS or CMOS process.
As one of the design and manufacturing methods, the layout can be implemented by an optimal method such as a manual operation for the analog section and an automatic layout for the digital section. In addition, cost reduction as an LSI chip can be expected due to the use of low-cost packages due to the dispersion of power consumption, the improvement in yield due to the reduction in the size of individual chips, and the like. Further, cost reduction of a magnetic disk device using the same can be expected.
In the above embodiment, an example of two chips has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may have a configuration of three or more chips.

The present invention is not limited to maximum likelihood decoding and PR4, but may employ another known amplitude discrimination method. The present invention can be applied to a combination of partial response waveform processing such as EPR and EEPR and maximum likelihood decoding, and further to a combination with trellis coded modulation.

[0179]

By applying the coefficient correction circuit and the error detection circuit of the equalization circuit according to the present invention to a signal processing circuit or a magnetic recording / reproducing device corresponding to high-speed transfer, optimization of various parameters of the circuit and the device can be achieved. It can be done relatively easily and in a short time. This has the effect of shortening the adjustment time, as well as improving the performance of the signal processing circuit and magnetic recording / reproducing device.
A significant reduction in circuit and device costs can be expected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a magnetic disk drive.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a phase margin measurement result of a magnetic disk drive.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a method for determining an optimum recording current from a result of measuring a phase margin of a magnetic disk device.

FIG. 4 is a histogram of an input signal of an identification circuit and a histogram of an error signal according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a difference between a reproduction output amplitude due to a recording current and an error distribution due to a difference between the amplitudes.

FIG. 6 is an input waveform to a signal processing circuit when the amplitude is different due to the difference in polarity of the isolated waveform.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating signal conversion by removing code bits.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an equalizing circuit and a coefficient correction circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an alternative example of the equalization circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing another example of the equalization circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating details of a coefficient correction circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an alternative modification of the coefficient correction circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating another example of the coefficient correction circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an alternative example of the coefficient correction circuit of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an error detection circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a modification of the error detection circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a modification of the error detection circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a modification of the error detection circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a modification of the error detection circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a modification of the error detection circuit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating a sync byte detection circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating a sync byte detection circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 23 is a view showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1. HDA, 2. Recording signal processing circuit (WSPC), 3.
Reproduction signal processing circuit (RSPC), 4 HDC, 5 Servo signal processing circuit (SRVC), 6 Device controller (CNT), 7 Magnetic disk device (HDD), 8 M
R head, 9 IND head, 11 R / WIC, 17
... VGA, 18 ... Programmable filter (LPF),
19: A / D converter (ADC), 20: Transversal filter (TREQ), 22: Viterbi decoder (M
L), 25: Sync byte detection circuit (SYNCDE)
T), 31: coefficient correction circuit (CCMP), 32: error detection circuit (ERRC).

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Shoichi Miyazawa 1099 Asoguchi Ozenji Temple, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside the Hitachi, Ltd.System Development Laboratory (72) Inventor Terumi Takashi 2880 Kozu, Kozu, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture Co., Ltd. Hitachi Storage Systems Division (72) Inventor Yosuke Hori 2880 Kozu, Odawara-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Hitachi Storage Systems Division (72) Inventor Yoshihisa Watanabe 2880 Kozu, Kozu, Odawara-shi, Kanagawa Hitachi Storage Systems Corporation Within the Business Unit (72) Inventor Akihiko Hirano 2880 Kozu, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture Hitachi, Ltd.Storage System Division (72) Inventor Satoshi Minoshima 2880 Kofu, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture Stray, Hitachi, Ltd. Within the Systems Division (72) Inventor Hideki Miyasaka 2880 Kozu, Kozuhara, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside the Hitachi Storage Systems Division (72) Inventor Toshihiro Nitta 2880 Kozu, Kozu, Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside the Storage Systems Division Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Tomoaki Hirai 2880 Kozu, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Hitachi Storage Systems Division, Ltd. (72) Inventor Tatsushi Shimokawa 2880 Kozu, Kozuhara, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Storage Systems Division, Hitachi, Ltd. (72) Inventor Koji Shida 2880 Kokutsu, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Hitachi, Ltd.Storage System Division (72) Inventor Yasuhide Ouchi 2880 Kokutsu, Kokuzu, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Storage System Division of Hitachi, Ltd.

Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. An equalizing means, an automatic gain adjusting means connected to an output of the equalizing means for sequentially detecting an amplitude of an output signal of the equalizing means, and an input of the output signal of the equalizing means. Identification means for receiving the signal and identifying the output signal; error calculation means for calculating an error relating to the amplitude of the signal in the identification means from the input signal and the output signal of the identification means; A signal processing circuit comprising: a discriminating means for outputting a count signal based on the error signal; and a counting means for counting the count signal. 2. The signal processing circuit according to claim 1, wherein the number of identification levels of said identification means is set by a register. 3. The signal processing circuit according to claim 1, further comprising target amplitude value setting means for making a target amplitude value of said automatic gain adjustment means variable by register setting. 4. A recording medium having a plurality of recording / reproducing areas; a storage means for storing a target amplitude value suitable for each recording / reproducing area of the recording medium; a recording head for recording information on the recording medium; An equalizing means connected to a head, an automatic gain adjusting means connected to an output of the equalizing means for sequentially detecting an amplitude of an output signal of the equalizing means, and an output signal of the equalizing means as an input signal. And a register for setting an identification level of the identification means, and a target amplitude value of a corresponding storage / reproducing area is set when the storage / reproducing area is selected. An information recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: signal processing means. 5. A recording medium for holding information, a recording head for recording information on the recording medium, a register connected to the recording head for setting a recording current of the recording head, an equalizing means, Identification means for receiving the output signal of the equalization means as an input signal and identifying the output signal; determination means for setting a threshold value and outputting a count signal with an error signal equal to or greater than the threshold value; and count means for counting the count signal Signal recording means having a single recording frequency, the number of identification levels of the identification means being 1, and the recording current set value of the recording head being changed, and recording on the recording medium. Each time is reproduced, the count value of the counting means at one or more threshold values of the discriminating means is stored, and the recording power when the error distribution becomes the smallest from this count value is stored. It calculates the value, the information recording and reproducing apparatus for an optimal current value recording current of the recording head. 6. A recording medium for holding data, a recording head for recording data on the recording medium, a reproducing head for reproducing data recorded on the recording medium using a magnetoresistive element, and a reproducing head. A sense current setting register, a sense current output terminal from the register, an equalizing means, and an identification means threshold value for receiving the output signal of the equalizing means as an input signal and identifying the output signal, and setting the threshold value or more. Discriminating means for outputting a count signal with an error signal, and signal processing means having a count means for counting the count signal, wherein the data is such that the magnetization reversal density is minimized,
The output of the discriminating means is always set to 0, and each time the sense current setting is changed, the count value at one or more threshold values of the discriminating means is stored, and the sense current when the error distribution becomes the smallest from this count value is calculated. An information recording / reproducing apparatus which calculates and makes this sense current value an optimum sense current value. 7. A recording medium for holding information, a recording head for recording information on the recording medium, an offset setting circuit for DC offset correction, an offset correction register connected to the recording head, and an equalizing means. An identification unit that receives an output signal of the equalization unit as an input signal and identifies the output signal; a determination unit that sets a threshold value and outputs a count signal with an error signal equal to or greater than the threshold value; and counts the count signal. A signal processing means having a counting means, wherein the input of the signal processing means is a single frequency, the number of identification levels of the identification means is 1, and the offset correction is performed by using one or more threshold values of the identification means. Each time the setting of the offset correction amount is changed by the register, the count value of the counting means is stored, and the optimum offset compensation amount is calculated from the count value. Information recording and reproducing apparatus for calculating the amount. 8. A recording medium for holding recording data, a recording head for recording recording data on the recording medium, an equalizing means connected to the recording head, and an output signal of the equalizing means as an input signal. Receiving means for identifying the output signal, a coefficient value register giving characteristics of the equalizing means, a threshold value, a determining means for outputting a count signal with an error signal equal to or greater than the threshold value, A signal processing means having a counting means for performing the processing, wherein the recording data is random data, the number of identification levels of the identification means is "2", and the coefficient value register is set to one or more thresholds of the identification means. Each time the setting is changed, the count value of the counting means is stored, and a coefficient value at which the error distribution is minimized is calculated from the count value. Information recording and reproduction apparatus according to the coefficient values. 9. A recording medium for holding recording data, a recording head for recording recording data on the recording medium, an equalizer connected to the recording head, and an output signal of the equalizer as an input signal. Receiving means for identifying the output signal, a coefficient value register giving characteristics of the equalizing means, a threshold value, a determining means for outputting a count signal with an error signal equal to or greater than the threshold value, A signal processing means having a counting means for performing the recording, a recording correction means for correcting the magnetization reversal position at the time of data recording according to a data sequence, and a correction value register for storing a correction value of the recording correction means. The data is random data, the number of identification levels of the identification means is "2", and the setting of the correction value register is changed by one or more thresholds of the identification means. Each time the data is recorded on the recording medium and reproduced, the count value of the counting means is stored, and from this count value, the value of the coefficient value register when the distribution of the error is minimized is calculated. An information recording / reproducing device that sets a correction value. 10. A recording medium for holding recording data, a recording head for recording recording data on the recording medium, an equalizing means connected to the recording head, and an output signal of the equalizing means as an input signal. Receiving means for identifying the output signal, a coefficient value register giving characteristics of the equalizing means, a threshold value, a determining means for outputting a count signal with an error signal equal to or greater than the threshold value, A signal processing unit having a counting unit for performing a recording current setting value, a sense current setting value, a DC offset setting value, a coefficient value of an equalization circuit, and a correction value of a recording correction unit, which are suitable for recording / reproducing of the recording medium. A storage unit for storing at least one set value; and turning on at least one of the set values when power is turned on or when a recording / reproducing area is selected. Means for reading from a storage means and setting the signal processing means. 11. An equalizing means, an automatic gain adjusting means connected to an output of the equalizing means for sequentially detecting an amplitude of an output signal of the equalizing means, and an input of the output signal of the equalizing means. A determination unit that outputs a count signal with an input signal greater than or equal to a reception threshold as a signal; a count unit that counts the count signal output from the determination unit; and an error detection unit that includes a register unit that sets the threshold value. Signal processing circuit. 12. A recording medium having a plurality of recording and reproduction areas, storage means for storing various recording and reproduction parameter values suitable for each recording and reproduction area of the recording medium, a recording head for recording information on the recording medium, An equalizing means connected to the recording head, an automatic gain adjusting means connected to an output of the equalizing means for sequentially detecting an amplitude of an output signal of the equalizing means, and an output signal of the equalizing means. An identification unit that receives the input signal and identifies the output signal; and a register that sets an identification level of the identification unit, and sets a target amplitude value of the storage reproduction area corresponding to the selected storage reproduction area. An information recording / reproducing device for setting, when the recording / reproducing region is selected, the optimum various recording / reproducing parameters of the corresponding recording / reproducing region in the signal processing circuit. Place.