IP Library Granted Patent US 8,898,551
Granted Patent B1
US 8,898,551 · App. 13/530,683 · Granted Nov 25, 2014

Reduced matrix Reed-Solomon encoding

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Patent No.
US 8,898,551
App. No.
13/530,683
Granted
Nov 25, 2014
Kind
B1
Abstract

In an arrangement of the disclosed systems, devices, and methods, a matrix representation of a block code comprising m bit-planes is obtained, a generator matrix corresponding to each of the m bit-planes from the matrix representation is extracted, a transformed generator matrix and a transformed data symbol vector for the first bit-plane of the block code are determined, a reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for each of the second bit-plane through the m th bit-plane of the block code are determined, and instructions for the encoder architecture based on the transformed generator matrix for the first bit-plane and the reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for each of the second bit-plane through the m th bit-plane of the block code are generated.

Claims (35)

1. Circuitry for producing a plurality of check symbols comprising:

input circuitry configured to receive a data vector comprising a plurality of data symbols, each data symbol having a bit-depth m;

a plurality of adder banks comprising:

a first adder bank configured to process the data vector to produce a transformed data vector by appending a plurality of parameters to the data vector;

a plurality of m additional adder banks, each configured to process a respective bit-slice of the transformed data vector to produce an output based on a respective reverse-mapped generator matrix; and

a reducer bank configured to process the outputs of each of the plurality of m additional adder banks to produce the plurality of check symbols.

2. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein each reverse-mapped generator matrix is produced based on the transformed data vector.

3. The circuitry of claim 1 , further comprising:

a plurality of m sets of data connections corresponding, respectively, to inputs to the plurality of m additional adder banks.

4. The circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of parameters is generated according to an iterative matrix transform.

5. The circuitry of claim 3 , wherein the set of data connections corresponding to a given adder bank in the plurality of m additional adder banks is based on the non-zero entries of a corresponding reverse-mapped generator matrix.

6. A method for configuring an encoder architecture comprising:

obtaining a matrix representation of a block code comprising m bit-planes;

extracting a generator matrix corresponding to each of the m bit-planes from the matrix representation;

determining a transformed generator matrix and a transformed data symbol vector for the first bit-plane of the block code;

determining a reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for each of the second bit-plane through the m th bit-plane of the block code; and

generating instructions for the encoder architecture based on the transformed generator matrix for the first bit-plane and the reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for each of the second bit-plane through the m th bit-plane of the block code.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining the reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for a bit-plane of the block code is based on the transformed data symbol vector.

8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising extracting a data symbol vector from the first plane of the block code.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining the reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for a bit-plane of the block code comprises generating a frequency match matrix based on the transformed generator matrix for the first bit-plane.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the instructions are in the form of a configuration layout file.

11. The circuitry of claim 6 , wherein the block code is a (n, k, m) Reed-Solomon code.

12. The circuitry of claim 6 , wherein the instructions for the encoder architecture are for implementation in an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining the reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix for the bit-plane of the block code further comprises adding a column to the reverse-mapped transformed generator matrix in response to a determination that a highest frequency element of the frequency match matrix is greater than a predefined value.

14. Circuitry for producing a plurality of check symbols comprising:

input circuitry configured to receive a data vector comprising a plurality of data symbols, each data symbol having a bit-depth m;

for each of m bit-slices of a block code,

a first adder bank configured to process the data vector to produce a transformed data vector based on the respective bit-slice; and

a second adder bank configured to process the transformed data vector based on a reverse-mapped generator matrix for the bit-slice to produce an output; and

a reducer bank configured to process the output of each second adder bank corresponding to each of the m bit-slices of the block code to produce the plurality of check symbols.

15. The circuitry of claim 14 , wherein the first adder bank is further configured to produce the transformed data vector by appending a plurality of parameters to the data vector.

16. The circuitry of claim 14 , wherein each reverse-mapped generator matrix is produced based on the transformed data vector.

17. The circuitry of claim 16 , wherein the plurality of parameters is generated according to an iterative matrix transform.

18. The circuitry of claim 14 , wherein the block code is a (n, k, m) Reed-Solomon code.

19. The circuitry of claim 14 , wherein the circuitry is implemented in an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2025
From: ALTERA CORPORATION
To: BARCLAYS BANK PLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073431/0309 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2012
From: LANGHAMMER, MARTIN; ELPHICK, DANIEL
To: ALTERA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028883/0426 →