Several techniques can be used to efficiently implement a Hamming coder for single-bit error correction and double-bit error detection. Many error-correcting codes ...

Should designers worry about soft errors in embedded designs? With the prevalence of higher memory densities and finer process geometries, many design teams are now evaluating techniques to alleviate ...

I got into an argument with a colleague about RAID levels (specifically RAID5) and whether the redundancy was accomplished through parity or ECC. The standard sources all refer to the RAID5 array ...

Correction is not possible with one parity bit since any bit error in any position creates exactly the same information as bad parity. If more bits are integrated ...

In 1950 Bell Labs researcher Richard W. Hamming made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the entire modern computing and communications industries. He had invented a code for ...