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In the data storage industry, innovation is fast and competition is fierce. The companies that survive are tough and smart. With services in the following areas, ChannelScience will help you build a technological edge to more effectively compete in the global storage market.
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How can ChannelScience help you build a lasting competitive advantage?
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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 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.
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Hold Critical Design Reviews
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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.
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Customize Your Technical Marketing for the Data Storage Industry
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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.
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Evaluate New Technologies for Investment or Acquisition
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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 Free Trial download of this read channel software for the data storage industry is available by following the link above.
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Build Teams to Enter New Markets
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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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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; turbo coding and iterative detection; 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.
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