Technology Strategies for Business Results
The best engineering, science, and business professionals know the value of utilizing outside experts and of getting different points-of-view on complex issues. ChannelScience is a partner-of-choice for providing subject matter expertise, 
practical know-how, and industry connections in data storage, semiconductor memory, detection, signal processing, error correction coding (ECC), MATLAB® development, AI/ML strategy, and custom training.
ChannelScience offers cost-effective analysis and strategic planning for applying artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to your small or medium-sized business. Our basic introductory consulting package consists of the following:
- Clear overview presentation introducing AI/ML and what is currently possible;
- In-person meeting with your top executives to identify needs, goals, and resources;
- Onsite assessment of your company’s readiness for AI/ML implementation;
- Investigation of current offerings that best match your capabilities and needs;
- Direct, custom strategic plan for AI/ML next steps; and
- Wrap-up meeting with executives and implementation team.
Contact us for details on price and scheduling. ChannelScience can also connect you with implementers, assist directly with your implementation, and/or provide assessments of your AI/ML progress and roadmap.
R&D Consulting Examples
Emerging Nonvolatile Memory Technologies
After many years in magnetic and optical recording technologies, ChannelScience was one of the early movers from rotating media to solid-state-based storage. We have focused on improving the performance and reliability of multi-bit per cell flash and 3D NAND. More recently, ChannelScience is particularly excited about the opportunities to blend magnetics with solid-state storage through the rapid developments in spin-transfer torque and spin-orbit torque devices!
Industry Insights and Connections
ChannelScience's chief scientist was asked to present the keynote address at 
a storage industry event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the hard disk drive (HDD). His insightful talk speculates on the techniques "digital archeologists" of the future might use to unlock the secrets of our civilization that will lie hidden in billions of discarded hard disk drive "artifacts.“
In solid-state storage, our chief scientist is a long-time member of the executive committee of the world's largest technical conference and trade show devoted to solid-state storage: The Flash Memory Summit, held annually in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley).
2011 Flash Memory Summit presentation: Accelerating the Pace of SSD Innovation: 10 HARD disk drive LESSONS (August 11, 2011)
Data Recovery Research
Spanning magnetic, optical, and solid-state storage technologies, ChannelScience expertise and tools have been instrumental in advancing the state-of-the-art in what is actually recoverable from failed and damaged storage devices.
Recovering Unrecoverable Data: The Need for Drive-Independent Data Recovery
Preprint (.pdf) of Paper D5 TMRC 2005:
Drive-Indepedendent Data Recovery: The Current State-of-the-Art
(IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, February 2006, pp. 188-193)
ECC Design, Development, and Evaluation
PRML Read Channel Development and PRMLpro™
Partial response maximum likelihood sequence detection is the foundation of modern noise predictive, 2D, iterative detectors for mass storage. We are proud that ChannelScience's expertise, tools, and training were used throughout the industry to accelerate the adoption of this important technological change!
- US005856986A Synchronization Field Pattern Selection
- US006163419A Apparatus for Demodulating a Servo Burst Signal
- US006404577B1 Trellis Encoding and Decoding of Track Identification Indicia
- US006483297B2 Apparatus for Characterizing Asymmetries of an MR Head
- US006504662B2 Apparatus for Measuring Thermal Asperities
- US006674591B1 Identifying Track using EPR4 Techniques
Our flagship product for the adoption of PRML techniques, PRMLpro™, is no longer being updated.