The system and method is used for cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format recording, whereas the existing disk data is recorded under clv (Constant Linear Velocity) control format recording. When the puh receives a laser driver signal, it generates a feed signal and a wobble signal. The feed signal is received by the automatic power control; thereafter the automatic power control generates a first control signal used for causing the laser driver to adjust the laser driver signal. After the atip decoder receives the wobble signal, the atip decoder generates and outputs atip decoded data to the clv value detector. The clv value detector receives atip decoded data and generates a clv decoded data to the laser power control. The laser power control receives the clv decoded data and generates a second control signal used for causing the automatic power control to adjust the first control signal.
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0. 23. A system using cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format for recording data on a disk where the existing recorded data is recorded with clv (Constant Linear Velocity) format, the system comprising:
a puh (Pick-Up Head), reading and recording on the disk;
a laser driver, generating and outputting a laser driver signal to the puh for causing the puh to generate a wobble signal, the wobble signal reflected by the optical disk and then read by the puh;
a write pulse generator, generating a write pulse signal to control the laser driver signal of the laser driver;
an atip (Absolute Time In Pre-grooves) decoder, collecting the wobble signal from the puh and generating an atip decoded data;
a clock synthesizer, generating a clock signal according to the atip decoded data and providing the clock signal to the write pulse generator.
0. 26. A system using cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format for recording data on a disk where the existing recorded data is recorded with clv (Constant Linear Velocity) format, the system comprising:
a puh (Pick-Up Head), reading and recording on the disk;
a laser driver, generating and outputting a laser driver signal to the puh for causing the puh to generate a wobble signal, the wobble signal reflected by the optical disk and then read by the puh;
a write pulse generator, generating a write pulse signal to control the laser driver signal of the laser driver;
an atip (Absolute Time In Pre-grooves) decoder, collecting the wobble signal from the puh and generating atip decoded data;
a clv value detector, receiving the atip decoded data and generating clv decoded data; and
a dynamic write strategy table, receiving the clv decoded data, providing a third control signal, and causing the write pulse generator to adjust the write pulse signal according to the third control signal.
0. 24. A system using cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format for recording data on a disk where the existing recorded data is recorded with clv (Constant Linear Velocity) format, the system comprising:
a puh (Pick-Up Head), reading and recording on the disk;
a laser driver, generating and outputting a laser driver signal to the puh for causing the puh to generate a feed signal and a wobble signal, the wobble signal reflected by the optical disk and then read by the puh;
an automatic power control, receiving the feed signal and generating a first control signal used for causing the laser driver to adjust the laser driver signal;
an atip (Absolute Time In Pre-grooves) decoder, collecting the wobble signal and generating atip decoded data;
a clv value detector, receiving the atip decoded data and generating clv decoded data; and
a laser power control, receiving the clv decoded data and generating a second control signal, which is used for causing the automatic power control to adjust the first control signal.
19. A laser power control method for recording data on a disk under cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format where the existing recorded data is recorded with clv (Constant linear Velocity) format, the disk inner tracks area having a PCA (power Calibration Area), the control method comprising:
rotating the disk under a first fixed multiple clv control format;
performing OPC (Optimal power Calibration) in the PCA and rendering a first optimum laser power of the disk inner tracks area, detecting a corresponding first clv value;
rotating the disk under a second fixed multiple clv control format;
performing OPC in the PCA and rendering a second optimum laser power of the disk inner tracks, detecting a corresponding second clv value;
applying the first optimum laser power, the first clv value, the second optimum laser power, and the second clv value and thereby creating an linear equation;
rotating the disk under a fixed cav control format;
using the linear equation and attaining a third optimum laser power based on a corresponding third clv value; and
adjusting the recording laser power based on the third optimum laser power.
1. A system using cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format for recording data on a disk where the existing recorded data is recorded with clv (Constant linear Linear Velocity) format, the system comprising:
a spindle, used for rotating the disk;
a spindle control, used for taking control of the spindle rotating;
a puh (Pick-Up Head), used for reading and recording on the disk;
a laser driver, generating and outputting a laser driver signal to the puh for causing the puh to generating generate a feed signal and a wobble signal, the wobble signal reflected by the optical disk and then read by the puh;
an automatic power control, used for receiving the feed signal and generating a first control signal used for causing the laser driver to adjust the laser driver signal;
a write pulse generator, used for generating a write pulse signal to control the laser driver signal of the laser driver;
a clock synthesizer, used for providing a clock signal with to the write pulse generator;
an atip (Absolute Time In Pre-grooves) decoder, used for collecting the wobble signal and generating an atip decoded data;
a clv value detector, used for receiving the atip decoded data and generating a clv decoded data; and
a laser power control, used for receiving the clv decoded data and generating a second control signal, which is used for causing the automatic power control to adjust the first control signal; and
a dynamic write strategy table, used for receiving the clv decoded data, providing a third control signal, and causing the write pulse generator to adjust the write pulse signal.
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12. The system of claim 1 22, wherein the dynamic write strategy table comprises:
a clv value detector used for receiving the clv decoded data, determining a clv value of the clv decoded data is within a fixed range and generating a clv value signal, the clv value signal comprises an index value representing the fixed value range;
a decoder, used for receiving the clv value signal and as a result generating a corresponding address signal;
a recorded medium, used for recording a plurality of write strategy patterns;
each write strategy pattern corresponds to an address signal and thereafter generating a corresponding third control signal.
13. The system of
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0. 16. A laser power control method for recording data on a disk under cav (Constant Angular Velocity) control format where the existing recorded data is recorded with clv (Constant linear Velocity) format, the disk inner tracks having a PCA (power Calibration Area), the disk outer tracks further having a lead out area, the control method rotating under a fixed cav control format and comprising:
performing OPC (Optimal power Calibration) in the PCA and rendering a first optimum laser power of the disk inner tracks, detecting a corresponding first clv value;
performing OPC in the second half of the lead out area on the outer track area and rendering a second optimum laser power of the disk inner tracks, detecting a corresponding second clv value;
applying the first optimum laser power, the first clv value, the second optimum laser power and the second clv value and thereby creating a linear equation;
using the linear equation and attaining a third optimum laser power based on a corresponding third clv value;
adjusting the recording laser power based on the third optimum laser power.
0. 17. The method of
0. 18. The method of
0. 22. The system of claim 1, further comprises a dynamic write strategy table, receiving the clv decoded data, providing a third control signal, and causing the write pulse generator to adjust the write pulse signal.
0. 25. The system of claim 24, wherein the second control signal comprises a laser recording power corresponding to the clv value.
0. 27. The system of claim 26, wherein the dynamic write strategy table comprises:
a clv value detector used for receiving the clv decoded data, determining a clv value of the clv decoded data is within a fixed range and generating a clv value signal, the clv value signal comprises an index value representing the fixed value range;
a decoder, receiving the clv value signal and as a result generating a corresponding address signal; and
a recorded medium, used for recording a plurality of write strategy patterns;
wherein each write strategy pattern corresponds to an address signal and thereafter generating a corresponding third control signal.
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This application claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a) of Taiwan Patent Application No. 090102986, filed Feb. 9, 2001
1. Field of the invention
The invention generally relates to optical drives and laser power control methods, and more particularly to a system and a method for Constant Angular Velocity control format.
2. Description of the Related Art
Among optical recording drives, control format for recording can be categorized into CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) and CLV (Constant linear Velocity) control formats. With CAV control format, a disk rotates at a constant speed regardless of what area of the disk is being accessed. Rotational speed of a spindle in the optical recording drive is constant. Data are recorded into tracks of an optical disk. Tracks are formed in a spiral line extending from the inner to the outer of an optical disk. On the other hand, the purpose of CLV is to ensure a constant data rate regardless of where on the disk the data is being accessed. With CLV, the rotation speed of the disk changes based on how close to the center of the disk the data is. For tracks near the center, the disk rotates faster, and for data on the outside, the disk rotates slower.
Current CD-ROM or CD-RW drive uses CLV control format for disk recording. Data is recorded at a uniform density with CLV control format onto a disk. As the high rotational speed of the spindle develops, CLV control format cannot cope with the demands come with high rotational speed. A recent development utilizing a CAV control format recording, whereas disk data recording performance approximates to the resulted uniform density from CLV control format recording. For example, for an optical drive under 16 times CLV control format, the rotational speed of inner tracks is 800 rpm. In contrast, for an optical drive using 16 times CAV control format recording, performance of the outer tracks recording can be as high as the performance gained from an optical drive using 40 times CLV control format recording.
In order to cope with the spindle operation adapting a CAV control format, two technical problem must be resolved: one is laser power has to be subject to the linear velocity changes, the other is recording pulse has to be subject to the linear velocity changes of a disk.
To realize the above-described technologies, the invention discloses a system and method for laser power control. The system and method is used for CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) control format recording, whereas the existing disk data is recorded under CLV (Constant linear Velocity) control format recording. The system according to the invention comprises: a spindle, a spindle control, a PUH (pick-up head), a laser driver, an automatic power control, a write pulse generator, a clock synthesizer, an ATIP (Absolute Time In Pre-grooves) decoder, a CLV value detector, a laser power control, and a dynamic write strategy table.
The spindle takes control of rotating of an optical disk with CAV control format via the spindle control. The PUH is used for reading/recording data from/onto an optical disk. The laser driver is used for generating and outputting a laser driver signal to the PUH. When the PUH receives a laser driver signal, it generates a feed signal and a wobble signal, the wobble signal reflected by the optical disk and then read by the PUH. The feed signal is received by the automatic power control; thereafter the automatic power control generates a first control signal used for causing the laser driver to adjust the laser driver signal. After the ATIP decoder receives the wobble signal, the ATIP decoder generates and outputs ATIP decoded data to the CLV value detector. The CLV value detector receives ATIP decoded data and generates a CLV decoded data to the laser power control. The laser power control receives the CLV decoded data and generates a second control signal, which is used for causing the automatic power control to adjust the first control signal.
With the clock signal provided by the clock synthesizer, the write pulse generator generates a write pulse signal to control the laser driver signal of laser driver. The dynamic write strategy table also receives CLV decoded data and then generates a third control signal for causing the write pulse generator to adjust the write pulse signal.
The dynamic write strategy table comprises: a CLV value detector, a decoder and a recorded medium. The CLV value detector is used for receiving the CLV decoded data, determining a CLV value of the CLV decoded data is within a fixed range and generating a CLV value signal. Wherein, the CLV value signal comprises an index value representing the fixed value range. The decoder receives the CLV value signal and as a result generates a corresponding address signal. The recorded medium is used for recording a plurality of write strategy patterns. Each write strategy pattern corresponds to an address signal and thereafter generating a corresponding third control signal. The CLV value detector comprises a matrix used for determining the fix value range corresponding to the CLV value. Wherein the CLV value detector can be either software or hardware. In addition, the recorded medium can be performed by a SRAM (Static Random Access Memory).
In the above-described system, the ATIP decoded data comprises predetermined absolute time in pre-grooves and biphase clock, wherein the biphase clock is used to cause clock synthesizer to generate a clock signal. The CLV decoded data comprises a CLV value resulted from disk real-time rotating. The CLV value equals to the count of the biphase clock detected by the CLV value detector at the fixed time interval. In addition, the second control signal comprises a laser recording power value corresponding to the CLV value. The laser power value can be set as a fixed value. The fixed value can be gained from an optimized value in experiments.
According to prior art system, the disk inner track area comprises a PCA (Power Calibration Area), where a laser power calibration such as an OPC (Optimal power Calibration) occurring. The present invention provides an alternative, an external laser PCA, which is on the second half of the lead out area on the outer track area. Wherein the external laser PCA is divided into 100 units. Each unit is divided into 15 blocks, which are used for providing laser power control for performing an OPC.
When the spindle is under fixed CAV control format, a linear equation for optimized laser recording power is generated from interpolation, which is used for calculating an optimized laser recording power with desired CLV value. An OPC in the PCA is performed and renders an optimized laser recording power of the inner track area of the disk. At the same time, the CLV value detector detects a CLV value of the inner track area. In the same way, an OPC in the PCA is performed and renders an optimized laser recording power of the outer track area of the disk. The CLV value detector detects another CLV value of the inner track area. Accordingly, using interpolation with the two sets of CLV values and corresponding optimized laser recording power from the OPC in the PCA in the inner and outer track, a linear equation for optimized laser recording power is generated.
In addition, when the spindle is under variable CLV control format, a linear equation for optimized laser recording power is generated by extrapolation. At first, set the spindle under a first fixed multiple CLV control format. An OPC in the PCA is performed and renders an optimized laser recording power of the inner track area of the disk. At the same time, the CLV value detector detects a CLV value of the inner track area. Then, set the spindle under a second fixed multiple CLV control format. Similarly, an OPC in the PCA is performed and renders an optimized laser recording power of the inner track area of the disk. At the same time, the CLV value detector detects a CLV value of the inner track area. Accordingly, using extrapolation with the two sets of CLV values and corresponding optimized laser recording power from the OPC in the PCA in the inner track under the first and the second multiple CLV control format, a linear equation for optimized laser recording power is generated.
The following detailed description, given by way of an example and not intended to limit the invention to the embodiments described herein, will best be understood in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The preferred embodiment of the system and method for laser power control thereof is explained referring to the drawings.
The write pulse generator 107 is caused by the clock signal 130 provided by the clock synthesizer 104 to generate a write pulse signal 124 to cause the laser driver 106 to generate laser driver signal 121.
The dynamic write strategy table 108 also receives the CLV decoded data 128 and generates a third control signal 125 to cause write pulse generator 107 to adjust the write pulse signal 124.
In
Referring to
The decoder 201 is used for receiving the CLV value signal 211 and as a result generates a corresponding address signal 212. The recorded medium 202 is used for recording a plurality of write strategy patterns 204. Each write strategy pattern 204 corresponds to an address signal 212. Each third control signal 125 corresponds to a address signal 212. Thereafter receiving address signal 212, a corresponding third control signal 125 is generated. The CLV value detector 200 comprises a matrix used for determining the fix CLV value range 203, corresponding to the CLV value, in the CLV decoded data 128. Wherein the CLV value detector 200 can be either software or hardware. In addition, the recorded medium 200 can be performed by a SRAM (Static Random Access Memory).
In the preferred embodiment according to the present invention, there is only the inner half of the lead out area is used for labeling the end of the data. Referring to
With the linear equation 500 and a current CLVx 501, a corresponding optimum laser power Px 502 can be attained. When an OPC is performed in the PCA 300 in the inner tracks in the disk 111, an optimum laser recording power P1 503 is attained. At the same time, the CLV value detector 100 detects the corresponding CLV value, CLV1 504. Furthermore, when an OPC is performed in the external laser PCA 400 in outer tracks of the disk 111, an optimum laser recording power P2 506 is attained. At the same time, the CLV value detector 100 detects a corresponding CLV value, CLV2 505. In other words, given the spindle 109 is under fixed CAV control format, via performing an OPC in the PCA 400 and the PCA 400 of the disk 111 and attaining corresponding optimum laser powers and corresponding CLV values, the linear equation 500 generated by interpolation is generated.
In addition, when the spindle 109 is under variable CLV control format, a linear equation 600 for optimized laser recording power can be generated by extrapolation as shown in
Then, set the spindle 109 under a second fixed multiple CLV control format. Similarly, an OPC in the PCA 300 is performed and renders an optimized laser recording power P2 605 of the inner track area of the disk. At the same time, the CLV value detector detects a CLV value CLV2 606 of the inner track area. As such, using extrapolation with the two sets of CLV values and corresponding optimized laser recording power from performing the OPC in the inner track under the first and the second multiple CLV control format, a linear equation for optimized laser recording power is generated.
Based on the embodiment shown in the
In the above-mentioned method, the second half 400 of the lead out area 301 on the outer track area is assigned as an external laser PCA. The external laser PCA is further divided into 100 external laser PCA units, each external laser PCA unit is divided into 15 blocks provided as an area for an OPC to be performed by a laser power control.
According to the method based on the embodiment shown in the
According to the above-described embodiment, the linear equation 500 and the linear equation 600 is generated via interpolation and extrapolation respectively. In other words, the method 170 generates the linear equation 500 via corresponding optimum laser powers and corresponding CLV values attained form performing an OPC in the inner tracks and outer tracks in the disk 111 under a fixed CAV control format. The method 280 generates the linear equation 600 via corresponding optimum laser powers and corresponding CLV values attained form performing an OPC merely in the inner tracks of the disk.
While the invention has been described with reference to various illustrative embodiments, the description herein should not be construed in a limiting sense. Various modifications of the illustrative embodiments, as well as other embodiments of the invention, will be apparent to those skilled in the art upon reference to this description. It is therefore contemplated that the appended claims will cover any such modifications or embodiments as may fall within the scope of the invention defined by the following claims and their equivalents.
Chao, Chi-Mou, Shih, Tsung-Yueh, Wang, Daw-I
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