Appeal No. 2000-0373
Application No. 08/450,245
transmitted from a read/write signal processor to a read/write amplifier because the data
transmission rate between the two circuits is unacceptably low and does not match the
processing capabilities of other components within the system. More specifically,
appellants discovered that this low transmission capability is due to the inexpensive film
cable typically connecting the two circuits. Appellants’ solution is to employ a read/write
signal processor having an interleave write data generator for generating a plurality of
interleave write data in an interleave relation with each other from write data, whereby each
of the plurality of interleave write data is transmitted from the read/write signal processor to
the read/write amplifier by using a plurality of signal lines. The read/write amplifier has a
compound circuit for restoring, i.e., interleave-to-serial converting, the plurality of interleave
write data back into the original, serial, write data.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus transmitting data
between a read/write signal processor and a read/write amplifier, for
recording and reproducing the data to and from a magnetic recording
medium through the read/write amplifier, comprising:
a read/write signal processor having an interleave write data
generator for generating a plurality of interleave write data in an interleave
relation with each other from write data; and
a read/write amplifier having a compound circuit for restoring the
2
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