Hierarchical parallel evaluation of a Hamming code (Q1662715)
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Hierarchical parallel evaluation of a Hamming code (English)
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20 August 2018
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Summary: The Hamming code is a well-known error correction code and can correct a single error in an input vector of size \(n\) bits by adding \(\log n\) parity checks. A new parallel implementation of the code is presented, using a hierarchical structure of \(n\) processors in \(\log n\) layers. All the processors perform similar simple tasks, and need only a few bytes of internal memory.
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error correcting codes
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Hamming code
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parallel algorithms
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