Accession Number:

AD0679508

Title:

RELIABILITY OF MAGNETIC TAPE MEMORIES,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO

Personal Author(s):

• Kilna,A. A.

Report Date:

1968-04-04

Pagination or Media Count:

15.0

Abstract:

By lumping together noise associated with magnetic tape quality, inherent noise of signal processing circuits, and noise caused by mechanical sources such as flutter and tape-head channel crosstalk, the author expresses the reliability of digital tape readers as a function of probabilities of misreading 0 and 1. Assuming that noise follows a normal distribution pattern, the author shows that the probability of tape reader failure is a function of discriminator-threshold-level discerning between 0 and 1, and that this probability has a minimum and maximum value. A probability of failure for reading a random code is derived. These results are used to evaluate the reliability of the BESM-2M computer tape memory system. A method for finding the actual distribution of signal and noise amplitudes in this system is presented.

Descriptors:

• (*DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS
• MAGNETIC TAPE)
• (*MAGNETIC TAPE
• RELIABILITY)
• STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
• FAILURE(ELECTRONICS)
• DISCRIMINATORS
• USSR

Subject Categories:

• Computer Hardware
• Recording and Playback Devices

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE