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ChannelScience is a technology consulting firm near Dallas, Texas that provides governmental agencies and large and small companies with expert technical services and products in the following areas:

PRML Read Channels;
Custom MATLAB® Software Development;
Flash Memory and Storage Technology Transitions;
Advanced Data Detection Algorithms for (nano)Sensors;
Professional Development and Custom Training;
Emerging Hard Disk Drive Applications (including MEMS);
Market Analysis and Business Advice;
Competitive Analysis; and
Expert Witness Services for Intellectual Property Cases.

As an overview, the industry leading capabilitites that ChannelScience offers include the following.

Read Channel Support for the Data Storage Industry

ChannelScience has a deep practical and theoretical understanding of partial-response maximum-likelihood (PRML) sequence detection architectures and algorithms. Services are provided for evaluating, designing, optimizing, understanding, and using state-of-the-art PRML read channels for magnetic disk and tape, optical disk and tape, semiconductor-based memory (flash), and even emerging MEMS-based and holigraphic storage devices.

Our flagship product, PRMLpro, provides the industry with an independent system-level tool for design, test and evaluation of key components and of the data storage device itself. Emerging component suppliers evaluate and improve the performance of their products using PRMLpro's system-level metrics such as bit error rate (BER), instead of proxy measurements like amplitude and pulsewidth. Furthermore, this is accomplished without the high cost of a large channel research staff.

PRMLpro also provides a very repeatable and sensitive system-level metric for the study of thermal decay effects.

Professional Services - Technology Development with a Business Edge

For the broader market, ChannelScience develops, optimizes and deploys adaptive algorithms, architectures, and software that help our customers extract information from the noisy, distorted signals generated by sensors in harsh environments. We strive for cost-effective implementations, even for the most exotic data detection requirements. We also provide project management services for software and hardware development teams to keep costs down and schedule accountability up.

Professional Services - Business Advice with a Technological Edge

ChannelScience has been contracted to evaluate the technology of merger and acquisition (M&A) targets, the viability of entering new technological markets, and the requirements for building teams and creating new products for existing markets. Project reports typically include quantitative conclusions, backed with reasons for the conclusions; identification of assumptions and the implications of changes to those assumptions; and an assessment of the underlying trends in the target industry that are likely to affect the future.

Custom Software Development in MATLAB®

As a Connections Partner with The MathWorks, ChannelScience has deep experience in creating, testing, deploying, and supporting highly complex, graphical, system-level MATLAB® simulations. The most advanced example of this is PRMLproTM, the flagship product of ChannelScience. A 30-day FreeTrial download of this read channel software for the data storage industry is available by following the link above.

Nanotechnology

There are three areas in the emerging field of nanotechnology in which ChannelScience is investing resources for future development.

  • System-level software for developing and optimizing products composed of MEMS or nanotech building blocks, such as bit patterned media (BPM)
  • 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, including discrete track recording (DTR) media and charge trap nano-crystals,

Long- and short-term professional consulting services are available in the areas described above, as well as for head/media/channel integration; expert witness and patent support; technical course development; flash memory and storage technology transitions; and for system simulation, testing, evaluation, and optimization. We also assemble small, focused teams to quickly attack emerging technological challenges in any area of algorithm development.

Please contact us for a free initial consultation.

e-mail: connect@ChannelScience.com
972-814-3441 (Voice)
972-208-9095 (FAX)

 
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