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Efficient hard decision decoding of generalized Reed-Solomon codes in presence of erasures and errors within the singleton bound

US11855658B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 5, 2022
Grant dateDec 26, 2023
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Expiry dateAug 5, 2042

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M13/3761
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A processing circuit is configured to: construct a first locator polynomial for a Reed-Solomon codeword to identify locations of erasures in the Reed-Solomon codeword; determine a first syndrome of the Reed-Solomon codeword; calculate a first error evaluator polynomial from the first syndrome and the first locator polynomial; and perform error detection based on the first error evaluator polynomial to determine presence of errors in the Reed-Solomon codeword. When presence of errors in the Reed-Solomon codeword is not detected in the error detection, the processing circuit bypasses updating the first locator polynomial and proceeds to completing decoding of the Reed-Solomon codeword, but when presence of errors in the Reed-Solomon codeword is detected in the error detection, the system first updates the first locator polynomial to a second locator polynomial in a process with reduced complexity compared to the common one, before completing decoding of the Reed-Solomon codeword.

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