“…Further, at high data-rates, implementation of the detector, whose complexity tends to increase for high performance, becomes a serious concern. The multilevel decision feedback equalization (MxDFE) family of detectors (viz., MDFE, M2DFE, M3DFE, and M4DFE), which uses the run-length-limited (RLL) rate 2/3 (1, 7) code, has been shown to offer viable solutions to overcome most of these problems [3]- [5], [13]. Because the minimum spacing between transitions is increased by the code constraint, the transition density dependent artifacts are less serious in (1, 7)-coded channels compared with (0, )-coded channels.…”