Algorithms and Architectures for the Design of a VLSI Reed-Solomon Codec

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Introduction

• Reed-Solomon Codes

• Arithmetic Operations in GF(2 ^m )

• Encoding

• Decoding

• Hardware Implementation: An Example Design of an RS (31, k) Codec

• Concluding Remarks

This chapter contains sections titled:

• References

• Acknowledgement