A General Class of M-Spotty Byte Error Control Codes

Kazuyoshi SUZUKI
Toshihiko KASHIYAMA
Eiji FUJIWARA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E90-A    No.7    pp.1418-1427
Publication Date: 2007/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.7.1418
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
m-spotty byte error,  t/b-error,  byte error,  error control codes,  Reed-Solomon codes,  RAM,  

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Summary: 
Error control codes have extensively been applied to semiconductor memories using high density RAM chips with wide I/O data, e.g., with 8-bit or 16-bit I/O data. Recently, spotty byte errors called s-spotty byte errors are newly defined as t or fewer bits errors in a byte having length b bits, where 1 ≤ t ≤ b. This paper proposes another type of spotty byte errors, i.e., m-spotty byte errors, where more than t bits errors in a byte may occur due to hit by high energetic particles. For these errors, this paper presents generalized m-spotty byte error control codes with minimum m-spotty distance d.

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