Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide

by Thomas M. Coughlin

Overview

Can you imagine life without your cell phone, laptop, digital camera, iPod, BlackBerry, flat-screen TV, or DVD player? The skyrocketing demand for devices that provide simple, immediate access to large amounts of content is driving required digital storage capacity to unprecedented levels. Designing digital storage into consumer electronics is crucial to the performance and cost of these devices. However, as our requirements for digital content storage grow, so does the formidable difficulty of implementing design solutions that are rugged, long-lasting, power-miserly, secure, network-accessible and can still fit in the palm of your hand!This book provides the background necessary to understand common digital storage devices and media. It helps readers decide which methods of storage work best for which kinds of devices, and then teaches designers how to successfully integrate them into consumer products.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750684651
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/29/2008
Series:	Embedded Technology Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tom Coughlin is a 25-year veteran of the digital storage industry. He has worked at several companies (including Ampex, Seagate, Maxtor, and Polaroid) designing and managing the design of digital storage products. He is the founder and organizer of the Storage Visions Conference, the leading annual event on digital storage in consumer electronics. Attendance at Storage Visions has increased about 70% annually in recent years, and includes all the major worldwide players in the technology. Tom is also a market analyst in the storage area and the author of annual reports on entertainment content creation and distribution and on the integration of digital storage into consumer electronics. He has extensive industry contacts and a broad base of support for the research required to complete this book. He has over 50 publications and six patents to his credit and is active in the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (current chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE CE Society), the IDEMA Consumer Electronics Committee (co-chair), and other professional organizations. Tom has a bachelor of science in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Fundamentals of hard disk drivesChapter 3: Fundamentals of optical storage Chapter 4: Fundamentals of flash memory and other solid state memory technologiesChapter 5: Storage in home consumer electronic devicesChapter 6: Storage in mobile consumer electronic devicesChapter 7: Integration of storage in consumer devicesChapter 8: Development of home network storage and home storage virtualizationChapter 9: The future of home digital storageChapter 10: Standards for consumer electronics storage and appendicesAppendix A: Specification comparison of some 1.8-inch hard disk drives and a flash solid state drive.Appendix B: Home networking technology trade groupsAppendix C: Companies making various storage products used in consumer applications

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More music, more photos, more movies! With this book, engineers will learn to maximize storage in consumer electronics designs!

Editorial Reviews

"This book will immediately become an indispensable reference book for the storage industry movers and shakers, developers and users. It will be a valued contribution for years to come." —Rick Wietfeldt, CTO, Emerging Technologies and Strategy, Texas Instruments, Inc.

"Tom Coughlin's The Essential Guide to Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics is an excellent guide to the internal workings of increasingly ubiquitous digital storage. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to understand and not simply use technology to enrich their lives." —Tom Clark, Principal Engineer, Brocade, and Board Member of the Storage Networking Industry Association

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