The CD-ROM Drive

A Brief System Description

Sorin G. Stan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-5039-0 (ISBN)

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The Compact Disc (CD), as a standardized information carrier, has become one of the most successful consumer products ever marketed. Although the original disc was intended for audio playback, its specific advantages opened very quickly the way towards various computer applications. The standardization of the Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM) and of all succeeding similar products, like Compact Disc interactive (CD-i), Photo and Video CD, CD Recordable (CD-R), and CD Rewritable (CD R/W), has substantially enlarged the range of possible applications. The plastic disc represented from the very beginning a removable medium of large storage capacity. The advent of the personal computer accompa nied by the increasing demand for both data distribution and exchange have strongly marked the evolution of the CD-ROM drive. The number of sold CD-ROM units exceeded 60 millions in 1997 when compared to about 2.5 millions in 1992. As computing power continuously improved over the years, computer pe ripherals have also targeted better performance specifications. In particular, the speed of CD-ROM drives increased from the so-called 1X in 1984 to dou ble speed in 1992, and further to 32X at the beginning of 1998. The average time needed to access data on disc has dropped from about 300 ms to less than 90 ms within the same period of time.

1. The CD-ROM Challenge.- 2. The Optics.- 3. The Servo-Mechanical Subsystem.- 4. The Decoding Circuitry.- 5. Other Basic-Engine Building Blocks.- 6. The CD-ROM Data Path.- 7. System Parameters and Drive Performance.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2010
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 132 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	1-4419-5039-7 / 1441950397
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-5039-0 / 9781441950390
Zustand	Neuware