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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1995
Philip E White, Minnetonka, MN (US);
ECC Technologies, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
A high-speed byte-parallel pipelined error-correcting system for Reed-Solomon codes includes a parallelized and pipelined encoder and decoder and a feedback failure location system. Encoding is accomplished in a parallel fashion by multiplying message words by a generator matrix. Decoding is accomplished with or without byte failure location information by multiplying the received word by an error detection matrix, solving the key equation and generating the most-likely error word and code word in a parallel and pipelined fashion. Parallelizing and pipelining allows inputs to be received at very high (fiber optic) rates and outputs to be delivered at correspondingly high rates with minimum delay. The error-correcting system can be used with any type of parallel data storage or transmission media to create an arbitrary level of fault-tolerance and allows previously considered unreliable media to be effectively used in highly reliable memory or communications systems.