Abstract: A digital servo control system for a disk drive provides asynchronous servo information signal demodulation. The system includes a digital demodulator having a digital squarer that removes any phase component of the digitized servo information signal and includes a burst signal accumulator that accumulates the squared terms according to respective burst timing intervals to produce a digital, quadrature position error signal (PES). The demodulator also can include a filter comprising a harmonic notch filter preferably implemented as a Hilbert Transform filter. Alternatively, the demodulator does not include a filter and squarer and, instead, the squarer comprises a sum-and-squarer that sums the squares of odd and even digitized samples. A split burst servo pattern for the servo control system is comprised of half-width transitions that can be written in a single pass of a recording head and therefore has no phase misalignment between adjacent flux patterns.

Abstract: A digital servo control system for a disk drive provides asynchronous servo information signal demodulation. The system includes a digital demodulator having a digital squarer that removes any phase component of the digitized servo information signal and includes a burst signal accumulator that accumulates the squared terms according to respective burst timing intervals to produce a digital, quadrature position error signal (PES). The demodulator also can include a filter comprising a harmonic notch filter preferably implemented as a Hilbert Transform filter. Alternatively, the demodulator does not include a filter and squarer and, instead, the squarer comprises a sum-and-squarer that sums the squares of odd and even digitized samples. A split burst servo pattern for the servo control system is comprised of half-width transitions that can be written in a single pass of a recording head and therefore has no phase misalignment between adjacent flux patterns.