Patent Application: US-16710905-A

Abstract:
the present invention provides a circuit for detecting and correcting errors in a bit stream . the circuit consists of a plurality of circuit elements , a least one operation circuit means , and at least two logic gates . the logic gates receive inputs from the plurality of circuit elements . the plurality of circuit elements are coupled to receive and store a portion of a bit stream . the operation circuit elements perform bitwise operations on the contents of at least two of the circuit elements . the bitwise operations are dictated by a cyclical redundancy check polynomial and are used to perform the crc error detection division operation . at the end of the division process for the data to be checked , each circuit element corresponds to a bit in a bit error pattern syndrome and the logic gates determine if the contents of the circuit elements match specific bit error patterns . the circuit causes the state of at least one bit in the bit stream to change if the contents of the plurality of circuit elements match one of the specific bit patterns . the circuit is advantageous in that it may detect single bit errors , and double bit errors that may be caused by error duplication characteristic of a scrambler .

Description:
fig1 illustrates both a x n + 1 self - synchronous scrambler 10 and descrambler 20 as discussed in the background to the invention . as previously explained , the x n + 1 scrambler 10 receives data in the form of a bit stream at the input 30 . the data is exclusive - ored 40 with a delayed version of itself . the delayed bits are illustrated as bit circuit elements , d 1 , d 2 , . . . . dn . the scrambled data is output at 50 by the exclusive - or operation after an n - bit delay . the scrambler operation is expressed as an x n + 1 polynomial . in fig1 , the x n + 1 descrambler 20 performs the reverse operation from the scrambler 20 . the descrambler 20 multiplies the received data at the input 60 by the same scrambler polynomial . the descrambler outputs the descrambled data 70 serially after the first set of n bits have been received . fig2 illustrates a x 43 + 1 self - sychronous scrambler 100 of the prior art . as shown in the xn + 1 descrambler of fig1 , the x 43 + 1 self - sychronous scrambler 100 multiplies the received input bit stream by the scrambler polynomial , x 43 + 1 . the drawback of the self - sychronous scrambler , in general , is that any errors occurring on the transmission channel will be duplicated n bits later in the bit stream . in the case of the x 43 + 1 self - sychronous scrambler , any errors are duplicated 43 bits later by the descrambler 100 . a single - bit error is illustrated in a possible output bit stream 120 , whereas a double - bit error is shown in another possible output bit stream 130 . while the descrambler 100 does duplicate any bit errors , a double bit error may not be output within the same data block , or data frame , of descrambled bits . in other words , the first error may be in a preceding data block while the double error is part of the next data block . furthermore , while it is possible to have double bit errors within a common data block , it is further possible to have triple errors due to bit error placement within the data block . to clarify , in a given data block there may be an error and a duplicate error and in addition , another bit error may occur due to boundary cases . boundary cases involve triple bit errors from a preceding or successive block , where bit errors from a preceding block are extend across frames into a preceding / successive block . these triple errors , while random , are detectable by the crc - 16 . accordingly , the present invention provides a circuit for implementing a crc - 16 polynomial for triple bit error detection with improved single bit error and double bit error detection after descrambling . fig3 illustrates a circuit 200 for detecting and correcting single and double bit errors according to a first embodiment of the present invention . the first embodiment is intended for an initial proposed transparent gfp superblock crc - 16 . the circuit 200 consists of a plurality of bit circuit elements d 1 , d 2 , d 3 , d 4 , d 5 , d 6 , d 7 , d 8 , d 9 , d 10 , d 11 , d 12 , d 13 , d 14 , d 15 , d 16 , two logic and gates 210 , 220 , an or gate 230 , and a plurality of input bit stream circuit elements d 1 , d 2 , . . . , d 493 , d 494 , . . . , d 536 , as shown in fig3 . the bit circuit elements may be implemented as bit registers , or other circuit elements such as flip - flops or transistors . the crc polynomial implemented in the circuit 200 is g ( x )= x 16 + x 15 + x 14 + x 12 + x 10 + x 8 + x 7 + x 4 + x 3 + x + 1 . according to the circuit 200 of fig3 , the input stream is a gfp superblock , essentially a 536 bit block , which is input into circuit elements d 1 through d 536 . on a bit - by - bit basis , the d 1 through d16 bit circuit elements receive input from the input stream . the circuit elements are coupled to operation circuit elements 240 a , 240 b , . . . , 240 h , 240 i , which provide bitwise operations dictated by the g ( x ). the first and gate 210 receives inputs from bits resulting from bitwise operations between specific selected bits . if the bits at the first and gate 210 inputs match a predetermined bit pattern then the and gate 210 is activated . similarly , the second and gate 220 receives inputs from bits resulting from bitwise operations between selected bits , specific to the second and gate 220 . if the bits at the second and gate 220 inputs match a predetermined bit pattern then the and gate 220 is activated . the or gate 230 receives an input from both first and gate 210 and the second gate 220 . the or gate is activated by a predetermined output from either or both and gates 210 and 220 . upon activation , the or gate 230 changes a specific bit in the bit stream . in this case , the or gate 230 would invert the first bit , stored in the d536 circuit element , to correct the single error . if a positive output is derived from the second and gate 220 , then a double error has been detected and the bit located 43 bits behind at d493 is inverted . where d ( x ) is said at least a portion of the 536 bit block ; g ( x ) is a bit pattern derived from the bit stream according to the polynomial ; b ( x ) is a remainder of a division operation between d ( x ) and g ( x ); and rem is the remainder from the modulo division of d ( x ) by g ( x ); such that the circuit detects when b ( x ) does not equal 0 . if rem ( d ( x )/ g ( x ))= a double bit error pattern then flip bit 1 and flip the bit which is n bits behind bit 1 if rem ( d ( x )/ g ( x )) a single bit error pattern then flip bit 1 . where n is derived from the scrambler polynomial , x n + 1 . according to an embodiment of the present invention , n may be 43 if the x 43 + 1 scrambler polynomial is utilized in conjunction with the circuitry of the present invention . in fig3 , the crc - 16 polynomial g ( x ) dictate the bitwise operation over the 536 bit gfp superblock . according to limitations of the crc - 16 error detection , the best possible error detection capability of the crc - 16 polynomial is triple error detection . with triple error detection capability , single error correction is also possible . in order to preserve the triple error detecting capability , the crc - 16 generator polynomial must have no common factors with the payload scrambler polynomial . the x 43 + 1 payload scrambler polynomial factors into : x 43 + 1 =( x + 1 )( x 14 + x 11 + x 10 + x 9 + x 8 + x 7 + x 6 + x 5 + x 4 + x 3 + 1 )( x 14 + x 12 + x 10 + x 7 + x 4 + x 2 + 1 )( x 14 + x 13 + x 11 + x 7 + x 3 + x 1 ). all of the known standard crc - 16 generator polynomials , have x + 1 as a factor , and would therefore suffer degraded performance due to duplicate errors . in order to also provide double error detecting capability the crc generator polynomial must have a factor that is a primitive polynomial with a degree of at least 10 . to further provide a triple bit error detection , a crc - 16 generator polynomial with triple error detection capability was utilized . according to the present invention , it was determined that various crc - 16 generator polynomials met both the double error detection and the no common scrambler factors criteria . the crc polynomial g ( x ) of fig3 , and that of fig4 , are examples of crc polynomials which met the above criteria . as explained in the background , each single transmission error will result in either one or two superblock errors in the descrambled data . due to the feedback tap on the x 43 + 1 descrambler , a second error is always created exactly 43 bit after the bit affected by the transmission bit error . if both of these errors fall within the data of the same superblock , then the crc - 16 must cope with two errors . it is possible , however , for the two errors to occur around a superblock boundary where one of the errors appears in each superblock . errors occurring at boundaries is discussed in detail in a technical paper t1x1 . 5 / 2001 - 094 , “ impact of x 43 + 1 scrambler on the error detection capabilities of ethernet crc ,” standards contribution from norival figueira , nortel networks , march 2001 , which incorporated herein by reference . a more rigorous theoretical analysis is to be found in “ analysis of the interaction between crc error detecting polynomials and self - synchronous payload scramblers ”, steven s . gorshe , phd dissertation , oregon state university , usa , 2002 . in general , single error correction is possible with a linear cyclic code as long as each possible error pattern leads to a unique syndrome at the decoder . for a crc , the syndrome created by the bit error pattern is the remainder calculated in the division of the data block by the crc generator polynomial . a remainder other than zero indicates the presence of an error . in order to preserve the capability of correcting single transmission errors , the syndromes ( remainders ) must be unique for each possible single error and 43 - bit - spaced double error pattern . the unique syndromes allow the decoder to know the original error pattern , which is what makes the correction possible . for each of the crc - 16 polynomials that met the above triple error detecting criteria , bit error patterns were calculated for each possible single error and 43 - bit - spaced double errors . the following are the single - bit error patterns and double - bit error patterns which met the following criteria . according to fig3 , single - bit error patterns and double - bit error patterns are detected by the first and second and gates to determine whether single - bit errors and double - bit errors have occurred . the single - bit error patterns ( syndrome a ) and the double bit patterns ( syndrome b ) are as follows : syndrome a 0000000000000001 0000000000000010 0000000000000100 0000000000001000 0000000000010000 0000000000100000 0000000001000000 0000000010000000 0000000100000000 0000001000000000 0000010000000000 0000100000000000 0001000000000000 0010000000000000 0100000000000000 1000000000000000 1001010000011111 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1010101001111101 1100000011100101 0001010111010101 0010101110101010 0101011101010100 1010111010101000 1100100101001111 0000011010000001 0000110100000010 0001101000000100 0011010000001000 0110100000010000 1101000000100000 0011010001011111 0110100010111110 1101000101111100 0011011011100111 0110110111001110 1101101110011100 0010001100100111 0100011001001110 1000110010011100 1000110100100111 1000111001010001 1000100010111101 1000010101100101 1001111011010101 1010100110110101 1100011101110101 0001101011110101 0011010111101010 0110101111010100 1101011110101000 0011101101001111 0111011010011110 1110110100111100 0100111001100111 1001110011001110 1010110110000011 1100111100011001 0000101000101101 0001010001011010 0010100010110100 0101000101101000 1010001011010000 1101000110111111 0011011101100001 0110111011000010 1101110110000100 0010111100010111 0101111000101110 1011110001011100 1110110010100111 0100110101010001 1001101010100010 the above explanation of the present invention , as embodied in circuit 200 of fig3 , has assumed that positive logic is utilized . positive bit logic was applied in detecting and correcting errors based on the outputs derived from both bitwise operations and bit logic operations . for example , a binary output of 1 at an and gate indicates an error . however , if negative logic is utilized in the circuit 200 , a binary output of o at the and gate 210 would indicate an error as well . fig4 illustrates a circuit 300 for detecting and correcting single and double bit errors according to a second embodiment of the present invention . the second embodiment is intended for a final version transparent gfp superblock crc - 16 . the circuit 300 differs from that of fig3 , in that bitwise operations are dictated by a different g ( x ) polynomial . the crc polynomial implemented in this circuit 300 is g ( x )= x 16 + x 15 + x 14 + x 12 + x 10 + x 4 + x 3 + x 2 + x + 1 . it should be mentioned that while the circuits of fig3 and 4 detect double bit errors generated by a descrambler , the circuits of the present invention detect single bit , double bit , and triple bit errors derived from any number of other sources . the 536 bit block need not be derived from a descrambler , such as is used on a gfp crc - 16 . the circuit of the present invention may derive a 536 - bit superblock , prior to processing by the circuit of the present invention . furthermore , the art that the present invention may be embodied in other circuitry . for example , additional and gates may be utilized to perform error detection in both circuits 200 and 300 of fig3 and 4 . fig5 is a block diagram of a circuit 400 for an 8 - bit wide parallel implementation according to a third embodiment of the present invention . as compared to the serial bit implementation of fig3 and 4 , the error detection logic 410 outputs an 8 - bit wide output to the or gate 420 . in an 8 - bit wide parallel implementation , errors are detected for an 8 - bit wide block . the single and double errors are corrected in the same manner as in the implementation of fig4 with the advantage that operating on 8 - bit data blocks allows the circuit to operate at ⅛ the data path clock speed of a serial implementation such as in fig3 and 4 . the data path clock speed reduction is a significant advantage for high - speed data transmission . in fig5 , the process implemented by the circuit 400 is similar to that of fig3 and 4 . the parallel crc - 16 generator consists of a bit circuit elements which are coupled to sequentially receive and store a sequential 16 bits derived from an 8 - bit wide input stream 450 . the generator 440 performs bitwise operations on the 16 stored in the bit circuit elements . the bitwise operation , again , is dictated by the crc polynomial selected . upon completion of the bitwise operations , the generator 440 outputs the generated 16 bits to the bit pattern generation logic 410 . if the single error output 450 indicates a single bit error , then the or gate 420 enables the errorred bit within the last 8 bits in the bit circuit element d 67 to be corrected . if the double error output 450 indicates a 43 - bit spaced double error , then the exclusive - or logic gates 470 a , 47 b enable the bit error which is 43 bits behind the first bit to be corrected . the bits of the errored byte to be corrected are stored in two bit circuit element , d 61 and d 62 . the first 3 bits , of the errorred byte , are stored in the d61 bit stream circuit element . the last 5 bits are stored in the bit stream circuit element d 62 . based on the circuit implementation shown in fig3 , and 5 , the present invention is not limited to a single crc polynomial . rather , the present invention provides single error and double error detection and correction capabilities for both serial and parallel bit streams , in which a number of crc polynomials may be utilized . the above bit error patterns are not exclusive to the gfp protocol . any protocol which utilizes a fixed - length block may utilize the specific bit patterns to detect errors in portions of the block bit stream .