Error Coding Techniques
5.1 Overview
Architectural vulnerability analysis, which was described in Chapters 3 and 4, identifies the most vulnerable hardware structures that may need protection. This chapter discusses how to protect these vulnerable structures with error coding techniques. The theory of error coding is a rich area of mathematics. However, instead of delving deep into the theory of error coding techniques, this chapter describes coding techniques from a practitioner’s perspective with simple examples to illustrate the basic concepts. Examples of common error codes used in computer systems and covered in this chapter include parity codes, single-error correct double-error detect (SECDED) codes, double-error correct triple-error ...
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