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Lookup-based Galois field operations

US8200734B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 7, 2008
Grant dateJun 12, 2012
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Expiry dateFeb 28, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F7/724
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Computing the Q and the P syndromes, which is needed in RAID 6 systems is effected through use of a single ROM lookup table for the necessary finite field multiplication. In one embodiment, the P and Q syndromes for data that normally arrives with 8-bit words are created by using Galois Field GF(24) arithmetic rather than the conventional GF(28) arithmetic, thereby very significantly reducing the requires size of the lookup table.

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