Patent ID: 7243286

Claim:
A method of generating error correction parity information using a parity check matrix having m rows and n columns, wherein m is a number of parity bits and n is a number of codeword bits, wherein a same fixed number of elements in each of the rows has a value of 1 and all remaining elements in each of the rows has a value of 0, and wherein a same fixed number of elements in each of the columns has a value of 1 and all remaining elements in each of the columns has a value of 0, the method comprising: generating a lower triangular matrix in 1st through k-th rows and (n−m+1)-th through (n−m+k)-th columns of the parity check matrix by performing row and column permutations on the parity check matrix, wherein k<m; and obtaining m parity bits using the parity check matrix including the lower triangular matrix and (n−m) message bits.