TechSpot

Did you know: 50 year-old error correction code gives today's flash memory a boost

For the uninitiated, low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is an error correction code (ECC) that is used to both detect and correct errors on data that is transmitted ...
EDN

Low power LDPC decoder created using high level synthesis

HLS methodology allows the hardware design to be completed at a higher level of abstraction such as C/C++ algorithmic description. This provides significant time and cost savings, and paves the way ...
Electronic Design

Flash Controllers Get Better Efficiency With Low Density Parity Check (LDPC)

What does satellite communication and flash storage have in common? They are both prone to errors and they need error correcting codes to provide reliable data ...
Electronic Design

Low-Density Parity Check Error Correction for Solid State Storage

Error Correcting Code (ECC) technology, such as Low-Density Parity Check codes, has been around longer than most of you reading this have been alive. The reason is ...
Design-Reuse

Stochastic Computation applied to the design of Error Correcting Decoders

We describe the application of stochastic computation to a family of error-correcting decoders. We have applied this technology to the Low Density Parity Check (LDPC ...
EDN

LDPC: Another Key Step Toward Shannon

For communication designers, especially those in the networking and wireless field, the Shannon limit can be seen as the Holy Grail. And, since being first defined in ...
TV Technology

Next-Generation Error Correction Codes

Last month I showed how coding and error correction allows next-generation broadcast technologies such as DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH to achieve performance very close to the ...