Bch-decoding – Wavecom W-BitView V2.5.00 User Manual
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Function:
This function performs difference decoding, which is a logical XOR operation on the previous output bit
and the current input bit. The Start bit value is user defined.
Example with start bit value of ‘1’:
“01101110” is changed to “10110100”.
BCH-Decoding
In: Bit stream
Out: Bit stream
Function:
Decodes BCH encoded bit streams.
The function returns the parameters listed in the table below.
Parameter
Description
Corrected errors
Number of corrected errors
Error Positions
Positions of detected errors
Generator Polynomial
Encoding generator polynomial on the form g(x) = 111…
Minimum distance
This property determines the number of detectable errors and the number of correctable
errors
Number of frames
Number of frames in the decoded bit stream
Order of Galois field
Property of the field of numbers to which a given BCH code belongs
Original data length
Length of original code word
Primitive polynomial
A polynomial describing a given BCH code
Parameter
Description
Value
BCH algorithm
Algorithm used to find BCH polynomial
Berlekamp-Massey, Euclid
Code word length
Length of code word including redundancy
bits.
Max errors
Error correction capability