Digital Baseband Transmission and Recording (Hardcover)

~ J.W.M Bergmans (Author)
Key Phrases: modified duobinary, optical data storage, probabilistic decoding, New York, Bell Syst, Selected Areas Commun (more...)

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Digital Baseband Transmission and Recording provides an integral, in-depth and up-to-date overview of the signal processing techniques that are at the heart of digital baseband transmission and recording systems. The coverage ranges from fundamentals to applications in such areas as digital subscriber loops and magnetic and optical storage. Much of the material presented here has never before appeared in book form. The main features of Digital Baseband Transmission and Recording include: + a survey of digital subscriber lines and digital magnetic and optical storage; + a review of fundamental transmission and reception limits; + an encyclopedic introduction to baseband modulation codes; + development of a rich palette of equalization techniques; + a coherent treatment of Viterbi detection and many near-optimum detection schemes; + an overview of adaptive reception techniques that encompasses adaptive gain and slope control, adaptive detection, and novel forms of zero-forcing adaptation; + an in-depth review of timing recovery and PLLs, with an extensive catalog of timing-recovery schemes. . Featuring around 450 figures, 200 examples, 350 problems and exercises, and 750 references, Digital Baseband Transmission and Recording is an essential reference source to engineers and researchers active in telecommunications and digital recording. It will also be useful for advanced courses in digital communications.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 656 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792397754
• ISBN-13: 978-0792397755
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #866,202 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent applied signal processing text, April 2, 2003

By	Chris Painter (Lafayette, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This is an excellent introductory text for optical recording (CD and DVD), magnetic recording (hard disk drives, tape), and baseband receivers (DSL). In its treatment of recording systems, it presents in a coherent and unified fashion information otherwise found only in journal papers. It also covers some of Dr. Bergmans' own work done at Philips, one of the creators of CD (along with Sony). It is written at a level of mathematical rigor accessible to senior level electrical engineering or applied mathematics students, grad students and working engineers.

The book deals primarily with the signal processing techniques used to convert the noisy, corrupted analog readback signal (or the received signal in the case of a baseband receiver) into a stream of 1s and 0s. It also provides an overview of the types of modulation codes used to encode the digital information prior to recording or transmission, and why they're important. (Also see the book by Immink, another Philips alumnus, for a more detailed treatment of modulation codes.)

Note that the Bergmans book does not include many aspects of a complete data storage system, since such a magnum opus would require several volumes. For example, it excludes control theory as applied to actuator motion control, disc and file formats, MPEG compression, host interface protocols, or other "higher level" functions. It also doesn't cover Reed-Solomon or other error control codes. There are other excellent texts on ECC (Wicker; Lin and Costello; etc.). That notwithstanding, this text is in fact a self-contained treatment of what is customarily called a "read channel" in the data storage industry.

I've used this book extensively, and I'd highly recommend it to any read channel engineer working at a drive or IC company, or to any student planning to enter the data storage industry.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good material, interesting style, but..., November 25, 2006

By	Ozdal Barkan (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is recommended reading to all DSP engineers at our company. It covers only Baseband digital communications which is perfect for people interested in backplane SERDES, Ethernet 10/100/1000/10GBASE-T, and magnetic recording applications. Not covering passband carrier modulation and analog communications lets one concentrate on the above fields of interest. It avoids too many mathematical derivations and covers a great deal of material in a simplified manner. However, in my opinion this book would make a terrible introduction to the subject. Unless you already pretty much know the subject, following what is presented is very hard. Once you know the subject to some extend then it might be a very good book to reference as I don't know any other book that covers so many related topics -- some to great detail. There are 3 chapters on timing recovery; chapters on Viterbi coding; Equalization (Linear, Partial Response, DFE); Modulation and Encoding. The book has an interesting way of presenting mixed discrete time and continuous time signaling. It has excellent references to published papers and other books. (Although they might be a little dated.) There are people who told me that the book is very easy reading, but once again, unless you somewhat know the material already I don't recommend this book as an introduction to the subject.

Since I was somewhat not satisfied with this book, I ordered "Precoding and Signal Shaping for Digital Transmission" by Robert F. H. Fischer. It seems to cover similar subjects but in a more standard manner.