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Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006

Filed:

Aug. 12, 2002
Applicants:

Martin Aureliano Hassner, Mountain View, CA (US);

Tetsuya Tamura, Kanagawa, JP;

Barry Marshall Trager, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Shmuel Winograd, Scarsdale, NY (US);

Inventors:

Martin Aureliano Hassner, Mountain View, CA (US);

Tetsuya Tamura, Kanagawa, JP;

Barry Marshall Trager, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Shmuel Winograd, Scarsdale, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An error correction algebraic decoder and an associated method correct a combination of a B-byte burst of errors and t-byte random errors in a failed sector, by iteratively adding and removing an erasure (N−B) times until the entire failed sector has been scanned, provided the following inequality is satisfied: (B+2t)≦(R−1), where N denotes the number of bytes, B denotes the length of the burst of errors, t denotes the total number of random errors, and R denotes the number of check bytes in the failed sector. This results in a corrected sector at a decoding latency that is a generally linear function of the number of the check bytes R, as follows: Decoding Latency=5R(N−B).


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