Detection of Unidirectional Multiple Errors Using Low-Cost Arithmetic Codes

  • Authors:

  • J. F. Wakerly

  • Affiliations:

  • Digital Systems Laboratory, Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1975

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Abstract

We show that a low-cost arithmtetic code with group length n detects all unidirectional multiple errors that affect fewer than n bits, as well as a larger class of such errors confined to a restricted set of bit positions.