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Since 1996, ChannelScience has provided business and technology consulting services to the data storage industry. Our expert services and products include:
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What can ChannelScience do for your organization?
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Read Channel Support for the Data Storage Industry
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ChannelScience has deep, practical knowledge of partial-response maximum-likelihood (PRML) sequence detection architectures and algorithms. We can help your team evaluate, design, optimize, understand, and use state-of-the-art PRML read channels and algorithms for magnetic disk and tape, optical disk and tape, Flash memory, MEMS, holographic media, and the new storage technology you are inventing right now.
Our flagship product, PRMLpro™, provides the industry with an independent system-level software tool for design, test, and evaluation of many key drive components and of the data storage device itself. Component suppliers evaluate and improve the performance of their products using PRMLpro™'s system-level metrics such as bit error rate (BER), without the high cost of a large channel research staff. PRMLpro™ has been completely re-designed and features a simpler user interface, direct loading of a variety of common digitizer and oscilloscope file formats, and a SOVA-based bit-level reliability metric.
PRMLpro™ analyzes other types of time-series data beyond storage-based readback signals. For example, cardiac waveforms and sensor signatures have been analyzed with PRMLpro™.
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Technology Transitions and Technology Evaluation
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The hard disk drive industry stays on the leading edge through frequent transitions in the underlying technology used to store and retrieve data. ChannelScience works side-by-side with companies to help them effectively transition to new technologies. We can provide that unique expertise for your next technology transition, whether it is in disk or tape, flash memory, or any technology field where change is fast and frequent.
Part of a successful technology transition is clearly communicating to all those involved why the change is necessary and how it is beneficial. ChannelScience evaluates the new technology, what it replaces, current competing alternatives, and likely next steps after the transition. We disseminate this information throughout your company in the form of custom classes, papers, talks, and meetings. We also work as part of your team to help you implement the technology transition.
Past and current assignments include evaluating new technologies for acquisition or investment, reviewing patent portfolios, determining market requirements, contributing to design reviews, positioning technology for acquisition, and forming teams to develop new products and enter new markets.
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Custom Software Development in MATLAB®
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ChannelScience, a MathWorks Connections Partner, has deep experience in creating, testing, deploying, and supporting highly complex, graphical, system-level MATLAB® simulations. The most advanced example of this is PRMLpro™, the flagship product of ChannelScience. A 30-day Free Trial download of this read channel software for the data storage industry is available by following the link above.
For the largest projects, we can build and train a team of MATLAB® programmers specifically for you, even if classified data or algorithms are involved.
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There are three areas in the emerging field of nanotechnology in which ChannelScience is investing resources for future development.
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- System-level software for developing and optimizing products composed of MEMS or nanotech building blocks
- Applying powerful, but cost-effective signal processing and detection algorithms to nano-sensors in order to enhance their cost vs. performance capability - especially chemical and biological sensors
- Emerging applications in data storage
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ChannelScience is a proven and reliable partner for your next data storage project.
Please contact us for a free initial consultation.
Email: connect at channelscience.com
Voice: 972-814-3441
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50th Anniversary of the Hard Disk Drive: Keynote Speech
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