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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgments
Chapter-1 The consumer electronics storage hierarchy
Objectives in this chapter
Introduction
Growth in digital content drives storage growth
Economics of consumer devices
Rules for design of digital storage in consumer electronics
Classification of devices using storage in the home
Consumer electronics storage hierarchies
Multiple storage and hybrid storage devices
Chapter summary
Chapter-2 fundamentals of hard disk drives
Objectives in this chapter
Basic layout of a hard disk drive
Hard data is organized on a hard disk drive
Hard disk drive performance and reliability
Hard disk drive design for mobile and static consumer
Electronics applications
The cost of manufacturing a hard disk drive
Disk drive external interfaces
Hard disk drive technology development
Chapter summary
Chapter -3 Fundamentals of optical storage
Objectives in this chapter
Optical disc technologies
Basic operation of an optical disc drive
How data is organized on an optical disc
Optical disc form factors
Optical product reliability
Holographic recording
Optical disc storage development
Chapter summary
Chapter-4 fundamentals of flash memory and other solid state
Memory technologies
Objective in this chapter
Development and history of flash memory
Erasing ,writing, and reading flash memory
Difficulties that cause wear in flash memory
Common flash memory storage technologies :NOR and NAND
Bit errors in NAND flash
Managing wear in NAND and NOR
Bad block management
Embedded versus removable NAND flash
Flash memory file systems
Single level cell and removable cell flash memory
Another approach to multilevel cells
Trade-offs with multilevel flash memory
Types of flash memory used in consumer electronics devices
Flash memory environmental sensitivity
Using memory reliability specifications to estimate product lifetime
Flash memory cell lifetimes and wear leveling algorithms
Expected change in cost per gigabyte of flash memory formats
Other solid state storage technologies
Chapter summary
Chapter-5 storage in home consumer electronics devices
Objectives in this chapter
Introduction
Personal video recorders and digital video recorders
Home media center and home network storage
Chapter summary
Chapter -6 Storage in mobile consumer electronics devices
Objectives in this chapter
Introduction
Automobile consumer electronics storage
Mobile media players
Cameras and camcorders
Mobile phones
Other consumer devices
Chapter summary
Chapter -7 Integration of storage in consumer devices
Objectives in this chapter
Introduction
Storage costs in consumer products design
Development of common product design
Intelligence of digital storage in consumer electronics
Matching storage to different applications
The convergence of electronics-when the storage becomes
Device-or was it the other way around ?
Road maps for consumer electronics application integration in
Storage devices
Chapter summary
Chapter -8 development of home network storage and home
Storage virtualization
Objectives in this chapter
Introduction
What drives home networking trends?
Networking options in the home
Push versus pull market for home networks
Home networks for media sharing
Home networks for personal reference data backup
Projections for home network storage
Design of network storage devices
Advanced home storage virtualization
Home network storage and content sharing within the home
Privacy, content protection, and sharing in home network storage
Chapter summary
Chapter-9 The future of home digital storage
Objectives in this chapter
Digital storage requirements for home data sharing and social
Networking
Integrated multiple purpose devices versus dedicated devices
Physical content distribution versus downloads and streaming
Personal memory assistants
Digital storage in everything
Home storage utility-when all storage devices are coordinated
Digital storage in future consumer electronics
Projections for storage demands in new applications
Digital storage as our cultural heritage
Chapter summary
Chapter-10 Standards for consumer electronics storage
Objective in this chapter
Digital storage standards
Consumer product standards
Home networking standards
Needed standards for future consumer electronics development