Measurement Solutions for Disk Drive Design

This application note illustrates a number of measurement techniques relevant to six general areas of disk drive design. It provides a summary of modern instrumentation and techniques available for probing, capturing, and analyzing electronic signals that are found in disk drive systems. Tektronix' comprehensive combination of high-performance probes, oscilloscopes, arbitrary waveform generators, and logic analyzers work together to provide a complete disk drive measurement solution.

Related Information

• TLA7000 Series Logic Analyzers
• AWG7000 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generator
• TDSDDM2 Disk Drive Measurement Software Data Sheet
• A6302 Probe Data Sheet
• P6247 Differential Probe Data Sheet
• P5200 High Voltage Differential Probe Data Sheet

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49W-12716-2, 03/2002, 05/21/2002, 09/25/2007