Radiation hardened SEU tolerant Reed Solomon encoder and decoder

Error correcting codes are used for detection and correction of errors in digital communication system. Reed Solomon (RS) codes are part of channel coding and are based on appending of redundancy to the information message to withstand the effect of noise, interference and fading. With the development of smaller process technology, systems are becoming more sensitive to radiation. If not considered, it may result into faulty circuit output even for a good circuit. This paper proposes encoding and decoding algorithm, synthesis and simulation results considering SEU effects for RS(15, 11) encoder and decoder using VHDL.