Transcript CD-ROM
CD-ROM
The CD Family
Standards
Red Book (1982) covers CD & CD-DA
Yellow Book (1985) covers CD-ROM
extended to cover CD-ROM/XA
Green Book (1988) covers CD-I
Orange Book (1991) covers CD-R
part II covers Photo-CD
White Book (1993) covers Video CD
HDCD currently under development
Compact Disc - History
Compact Discs started with CD-DA
Compact Disc - Digital Audio
Standard music CDs
Became CD-ROM
650 MB of storage on 12cm optical disc
CD-I (Compact Disc Interactive)
Home entertainment system with built-in processor,
can also play music CDs
Compact Disc - History (cont.)
CD-ROM/XA (eXtended Architecture)
extends CD-ROM with some of the compressed
audio capabilities of CD-I (ADPCM)
permits interleaving of audio and video
All of the above are “mastered” rather than
burned, so thousands of copies can be pressed much cheaper than burning for copies above a
dozen or so
Structure of CD-ROM
Since CD-ROMs are based on the music CD
structure they are 10-20 times slower than hard
discs
in order to fit as much music as possible on the disc,
the standard was defined on the basis of storing data
at the same linear density at the outer edge as at the
center, thus there is more data on the outside tracks
than the inside tracks.
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
In order to deal with this, the angular velocity of the
disc decreases when the head moves from the center
to the outside tracks. Thus for random access to the
CD-ROM. The need to accelerate and decelerate the
disc is the biggest obstacle to increasing the speed.
Most hard discs spin at a constant angular velocity, so
data density decreases towards the outside of the disc,
but seek time is significantly faster.
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
Standard CD-ROM
120mm in diameter, 1.2mm thick, hole 15mm across
in center
Data is represented by a spiral of small pits, coated
with a reflective metal layer, coated with a protective
lacquer
Pits are 0-12m deep and about 0.6 m wide,
neighbouring turns of the spiral are 1.6 m apart,
giving a track density of 16000 tpi
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
The transition from pit to land and from land to pit
corresponds to a coding of 1 in the digital data
stream, 0 is no transition.
Land
Pit
10000100010000100001000100001000010000
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
Recording
process is called mastering
waveform carrying the encoded information is
transferred to a modulator, controlling a powerful
short-wavelength laser beam as it passes through a
lens, forming a spot on the photoresist coating of a
glass master disc.
Physical negative “stampers” are then developed
from the glass master.
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
The 0s and 1s of the pits and lands do not correspond
to the actual user data, as bit resolution is limited by
the wavelength of laser light and the lens aperture.
Thus adjacent transitions can be too close together to
be read.
As a result each user data byte is represented by 17
channel bits
14 modulation bits from a lookup table
3 merge bits to separate each symbol
Structure of CD-ROM (cont.)
A set of 24 of these 17 bit symbols is combined with
a sync pattern (another 24 channel bits with 3 merge
bits), a control and display symbol, and 8 error
correction symbols to form a frame - the basic unit of
storage on a CD-ROM
Frames are grouped in blocks of 98, which occur 75
times per second, giving a CD-ROM data rate of
1.17Mbps (or 1.2288 in US)
Recordable CD
CD-R, CD-WO
WORM based
single or multisession
slightly different physical structure, but conforms to
CD-ROM/XA
CD- RW
fully rewritable discs, using optical film technology