Chapter 12. Compact Disc System and Beyond
The CD system and how it arose. Global standard. First digital audio consumer product. Philips-Sony collaboration. Cross-interleave Reed Solomon coding (CIRC). Constant-velocity recording. Semiconductor laser use. Pit or dimple as a digital bit. Monochromatic coherent light beam. Optical system of CD reader. CD tracking using servo-motor. Start of recording on inside track. Mistracking detection and correction. Data arranged into frames. Digital signal processing (DSP). The Red Book. Long-burst error correction. Self-clocking recording system. Frame content. EFM through lookup table. Random errors and burst errors. Interleaving to reduce effect of burst errors. Reed-Solomon coding. Adding control bytes. ...