Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide

by Thomas M. Coughlin

Overview

Consumer electronics engineers, technicians, and managers, embedded engineers, system engineers, product designers & developers, network engineers and managers, programmers, marketing and sales personnel, and providers of content to electronic device end users

* Presents best practices for selecting, integrating, and using storage devices to achieve higher performance, greater reliability and lower cost
* Teardown photos provide rare visuals of the "guts" of the devices discussed
* Covers hot topics including flash memory, DVRs, Apple iPods, home networks, and automotive electronics, from basic layouts to standards, advanced features, and exciting growth opportunities

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080558493
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/30/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Thomas M. Coughlin is the Founder and President of consulting firm, Coughlin Associates. Tom has over 35 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical manager. In addition to regular technical and management consulting projects, he is the publisher of many reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems and writes a regular blog on digital storage topics for Forbes.com. He has many published papers, reports, and articles and is a frequent contributor to the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine where he is also an Associate Editor. He has six patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference and the Creative Storage Conference. Tom is a senior member of the IEEE and has held many volunteer positions in the IEEE, including Director of IEEE Region 6 and Vice President of Operations and Planning for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He is also a member of APS, AVS, SNIA, TCG, and SMPTE. Tom has a BS in Physics and an MSEE from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan. For more information on Coughlin Associates go to www.tomcoughlin.com. For more information on the Storage Visions Conference go to www.storagevisions.com. For more on the Creative Storage Conference go to www.creativestorage.org.

Table of Contents

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

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 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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