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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Pmc-sierra Us, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
PMC-Sierra US, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/00 (2006.01); H03M 13/05 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 13/05 (2013.01); H03M 13/1515 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method of decoding a Reed-Solomon code using a Reed-Solomon decoder comprising an erasure location selector, multiple syndrome formers and multiple Berlekamp-Massey decoders that share a single error correction unit, and means for selecting a Berlekamp-Massey decoder output as the input to the error correction unit. The method improves the bit error rate performance of the Reed-Solomon decoder compared to known hard-decision and soft-decision Reed-Solomon decoders. The Reed-Solomon decoder also provides hardware area and power savings over more complex Reed-Solomon decoders.