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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2007
William Gene Bliss, Thornton, CO (US);
Gregory L. Silvus, Boulder, CO (US);
John P. Mead, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas V. Souvignier, Longmont, CO (US);
William Gene Bliss, Thornton, CO (US);
Gregory L. Silvus, Boulder, CO (US);
John P. Mead, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas V. Souvignier, Longmont, CO (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Super block error correction code (ECC) adaptable to communication systems including hard disk drives (HDDs) and other memory storage devices. A means is presented by which a number of blocks of information can be organized, with a degree of ECC provided thereto, and transmitted via a signal into a communication channel. In some instances, the communication channel is coupled to a storage media as in the context of an HDD, and information is written to and read from the storage media via this communication channel (e.g., 'read channel'). This means is particularly well suited to applications that provide large amounts of data via any one transmission (e.g., DVR/PVR (Digital/Personal Video Recorder)). A redundant block is generated using the information of each of a number of information blocks thereby provided extra ECC on a large portion of data, and that redundant block also undergoes ECC encoding.