Patent Application: US-94250092-A

Abstract:
a process for realizing mappings between codewords of two distinct reed - solomon codes over gf having selected two independent parameters : j , specifying the number of bits per symbol ; and e , the symbol error correction capability of the code , wherein said independent parameters j and e yield the following : n = 2 j - 1 , total number of symbols per codeword ; 2e , the number of symbols assigned a role of check symbols ; and k = n - 2e , the number of code symbols representing information , all within a codeword of an rs code over gf , and having selected said parameters for encoding , the implementation of a decoder are governed by : 2 j field elements defined by a degree j primitive polynomial over gf denoted by f ; a code generator polynomial of degree 2e containing 2e consecutive roots of a primitive element defined by f ; and , in a berlekamp rs code , the basis in which the rs information and check symbols are represented . the process includes separate transformation steps for symbol - by - symbol conversion for a first rs code to ultimately a second conventional rs code capable of being corrected by a conventional rs decoder , followed by a reverse sequence of the inverse of the first set of steps to arrive at codewords having corrected information symbols , at which time check symbols of the rs code may be discarded .

Description:
before proceeding with a detailed description of the invention , the transformational equivalence of berlekamp and conventional rs codes for ( n , k )=( 15 , 9 ) will be described as one example of an ( n , k ) rs code gf ( w 4 ). then a succession of transformations will be described that , in accordance with the present invention , map any given codeword of a ( 255 , 223 ) rs berlekamp code b to a codeword of a ( 255 , 223 ) rs code . ( conventional code g ). this allows the use of one ground decoder ( associated with code g ) which is conservatively an order of magnitude more complex than its associated encoder to serve as a decoder for the two distinct ( 255 , 223 ) rs codes . the succession of transformations that map a received word ( which may be erroneous ) originating from code b to one of code g ( with the number of erroneous symbols unchanged ) is completed before decoding . after decoding where symbol errors , if any , have been corrected , the entire codeword ( now a member of code g ) is subjected to the inverse of each of the above transformations in reverse order to recover the received codeword in code b in order to recover the codeword originating from code b ( corrected if originally erroneous ). a received word originating from code g is decoded directly . b in code b denotes berlekamp &# 39 ; s representations associated with berlekamp encoder architecture . whereas g in code g denotes representations associated with pre - berlekamp or &# 34 ; conventional &# 34 ; architecture . the mathematical description of two ( 15 , 9 ) rs codes are summarized as follows : ## equ30 ## each ( of the 9 ) 4 - bit information symbols of any ( 15 , 9 ) rs code is independently selected among 16 possible symbols in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by the code &# 39 ; s field generator polynomial . each ( of the 6 ) check symbol is a linear combination of a distinct subset of information symbols and thus are defined by the information symbols and , therefore , dependent . thus the size of a ( 15 , 9 ) rs codeword dictionary is there is a one - to - one correspondence between the codewords of two different ( n , k ) rs codes . ______________________________________i of c . sub . i 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 { l . sub . j } in hex 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0______________________________________ encoding the information symbol sequence using an encoder with berlekamp architecture results in the code b codeword __________________________________________________________________________i of c . sub . i 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 { l . sub . j } in hex 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c a__________________________________________________________________________ where each 4 - bit symbol is a basis { l j } symbol expressed in hexadecimal . the first transformation to be applied to a code b codeword is the mapping of each symbol from its basis { l j } representation to its corresponding representation as given in table iv . the log . sub . α of α i ( i . e ., i ) is ( and has been ) used to represent the binary symbol b 3 b 2 b 1 b 0 where appropriate . __________________________________________________________________________k of ck 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 { l . sub . j } in hex 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c a__________________________________________________________________________ by table look - up or the linear transformation discussed above under the heading &# 34 ; berlekamp &# 39 ; s representation of rs symbols using the concept of a trace ,&# 34 ; the basis { l j } symbols are transformed to their respective α i representations to yield the code b . 1 codeword __________________________________________________________________________k of ck 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 { l . sub . j } in hex 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c ai of α . sup . i 0 * * * * * * * * 0 4 2 11 2 4__________________________________________________________________________ note that code b . 1 is a ( 15 , 9 ) rs code with the following mathematical description : ## equ31 ## code b . 1 has the same field and code generator polynomial ( which is self - reciprocal ) as code b . the encoder associated with code b . 1 is of the &# 34 ; conventional &# 34 ; type , a codeword denoted c b . 1 ( x ) in the following equation . c . sub . b . 1 ( x )= x . sup . 14 + x . sup . 5 + α . sup . 4 x . sup . 4 + α . sup . 2 x . sup . 3 + α . sup . 11 x . sup . 2 + α . sup . 2 x + α . sup . 4 ( 30 ) is from example 10 a codeword polynomial belonging to code b . 1 which contains g 2 . 1 ( x )= g 2 ( x ) as a factor . the symbol - by - symbol transformation from the basis { l j } representation in binary to its corresponding α i representation in binary ( i . e ., αbasis } is ## equ32 ## is the linear transformation matrix . for example the second transformation in the sequence is related to the translation of the powers of the roots in g 2 . 1 ( x ) (= g 2 ( x )) which was first derived in r . l . miller and l . j . deutsch , &# 34 ; conceptual design for a universal reed - solomon decder ,&# 34 ; ieee transactions on communications ,&# 34 ; vol . com - 29 , no . 11 , pp . 1721 - 1722 , november 1981 , for the general case . given ## equ33 ## where γ = α 4 . changing the argument from x to γ 4 x yields ## equ34 ## where ( γ 4 ) 6 = γ 24 . tbd . 9 mod 15 and γ 4 = α . the generator polynomial g 2 . 2 ( x ) derived from g 2 . 1 ( x ) defines the ( 15 , 9 ) rs code b . 2 . given c b . 1 ( x ) a code b . 1 codeword polynomial . thus since g 2 . 2 ( x )| c b . 1 ( αx ), c b . 1 ( αx ) is a code b . 2 codeword polynomial . code b . 2 is a ( 15 , 9 ) rs code with the following mathematical description : ## equ35 ## the encoder associated with code b . 2 is of the &# 34 ; conventional &# 34 ; type . the generator polynomial g 2 . 2 ( x ) provides a test for any codeword polynomial c b . 2 ( x ) derived from the transformation c b . 1 ( αx ). dividing c b . 2 ( x ) by g 2 . 2 ( x ) in ( 31 ) over gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b . 2 ( x ) =( f b ( x )) results in a zero remainder . from example 10 and equation ( 30 ) ## equ36 ## it may be verified that c . sub . b . 2 ( x )=( α . sup . 14 x . sup . 8 + α . sup . 2 x . sup . 7 + α . sup . 7 x . sup . 6 + α . sup . 4 x . sup . 5 + α . sup . 4 x . sup . 4 + α . sup . 3 x . sup . 3 + αx . sup . 2 + α . sup . 2 x + α . sup . 10 ) g . sub . 2 . 2 ( x ) over gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b . 2 ( x ) (= f b ( x )). the generator polynomial g 2 . 2 ( x ) appears in ( 31 ). the outcomes of successive transformations , thus far , on codeword ( symbols ) c b in example 10 are : __________________________________________________________________________k of ck 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c ac . sub . b . 1 0 * * * * * * * * 0 4 2 11 2 4c . sub . b . 2 14 * * * * * * * * 5 8 5 13 3 4__________________________________________________________________________ the binary symbols of c b are in basis { l j } represented in hexadecimal . whereas the binary symbols in c b . 1 and c b . 2 are represented by i of α i in the same gf ( 2 4 ) where f b ( α )= 0 . the transformation related to the translation of the powers of the roots involves a change in the magnitude of s k in α sk of a coefficient of x k ( when α sk and k are nonzero ) which is dependent upon the magnitude of k . an all zeros coefficient ( α *) and c o the constant term of a codeword polynomial are unaffected . given the fixed vector the log . sub . α of respective coefficients of codeword polynomial c b . 1 ( x ). then the log . sub . α of the coefficient of x k of c b . 2 ( x ) ( i . e ., c b . 1 ( αx )) is the description of the succession of transformations for the one - to - one mapping of c b ( x ) to c g ( x ) continues . a change in the primitive element α is required in ## equ37 ## in preparation for the one - to - one mapping of rs symbols ( i . e ., field elements ) in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b ( x ) in ( 5 ) to rs symbols in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f g ( x ) in ( 6 ). see table iii . has solution ( s ) in y if and only if ( b , n )| c and the number of distinct solutions is ( b , n ). since ( 4 , 15 )= 1 there is a unique solution for y in ( 32 ), namely , y = 7 . clearly ( 7 , 15 )= 1 and α 7 is primitive . recall that α is a primitive root of f b ( x ) and that α 4 among the candidates of primitive elements was selected in deriving one of 4 distinct self - reciprocal generator polynomials , namely , g 2 ( x ) in ( 23 ). the choice is one factor affecting the complexity of the linear binary array in fig2 . since i of the α i candidates is necessarily relatively prime to 15 ( i . e ., ( i , n )= 1 ), a unique solution exists for the congruence in ( 32 ) where each i is substituted for 4 . the foregoing arguments are applicable in formulating a transformation between any two distinct ( n , k ) rs codes involving a change in the primitive element . n - k consecutive powers of the changed primitive element are roots of transformed codewords . the correspondence as shown in table iii is used in a subsequent third transformation which yields g 1 ( x ). the next transformation is a one - to - one mapping of codewords in code b . 2 onto codewords in code b . 3 . the generator polynomial of code b . 3 is ## equ38 ## codeword polynomials c b . 3 ( x ) must contain all the roots of g 2 . 3 ( x ) in order to contain g 2 . 3 ( x ) as a factor . thus c . sub . b . 3 ( α . sup . 13j )= c . sub . b . 3 [( α . sup . 7 ). sup . 4j ]= 0 for j = 1 , 2 , . . . , 6 ( 35 ) and c b . 3 ( x ) is derived from c b . 2 ( x ) by a permutation of the ( symbol ) coefficients of c b . 2 ( x ). the permutation of the symbols of the latter is where 13 k is reduced modulo 15 . the permutation accounts for the substitution of α 7 for α ( resulting in a change in primitive element ) to obtain g 2 . 3 ( x ) in equation ( 34 ). note that 13 ( of 13 k in equation ( 36 ) is the multiplicative inverse of 7 modulo 15 . since ( 13 , 15 )= 1 , 13 k modulo 15 is a permutation on the complete residue class k ( 0 1 . . . 14 ) modulo 15 as follows : __________________________________________________________________________14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 3 2 1 0 = k of c . sub . k 2 46 8 10 12 14 1 7 9 11 13 0 = 13k mod 15__________________________________________________________________________ given codeword c b . 2 from example 11 . the permutation c . sub . [ b . 2 ] 13k yields codeword c b . 3 . __________________________________________________________________________k of c . sub . k 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b . 2 14 * * * * * * * * 5 8 5 13 3 4c . sub . b . 3 * 3 * 13 * 5 * 8 * 5 * * 14 * 4__________________________________________________________________________ consider the coefficient c 1 = α 3 of x in codeword polynomial c b . 2 ( x ). due to the permutation , it becomes the coefficient c 13 = α 3 of x 13 in codeword polynomial c b . 3 ( x ). from equation ( 34 ) α . sup . 13j =( α . sup . 7 ). sup . 4j must be a root of c . sub . b . 3 ( x ) for j = 1 , 2 , . . . , 6 evaluating the term α 3 x 13 in c b . 3 ( x ) for it will now be shown that the permutation preserves the evaluation of the foregoing term in c b . 2 ( x ) for the root ( α 7 ) 4 . from ( 31a ) α . sup . 4j must be a root of c . sub . b . 2 ( x ) for j = 1 , 2 , . . . , 6 evaluating the term α 3 x in c b . 2 ( x ) for consider the coefficient c 3 = α 5 of x 3 in c b . 2 ( x ). the evaluation of the term α 5 x 3 in c b . 2 ( x ) for the root ( α 4 ) 6 is the coefficient c 3 = α 5 of x 3 in c b . 2 ( x ) becomes by permutation the coefficient c 3 × 13 mod 15 (= c 9 ) of x 3 × 13 (= x 9 ) in c b . 3 ( x ). the evaluation of the term α 5 x 3 × 13 in c b . 3 ( x ) for the root [( α 7 ) 4 )] 6 is c . sub . 13k mod 15 of c . sub . b . 3 ( x ) equals c . sub . k of c . sub . b . 2 ( x ) for k = 0 , 1 , . . . , 14 the outcomes of successive transformations , thus far , on codeword ( symbols ) c b in example 10 are : __________________________________________________________________________k of c . sub . k 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c ac . sub . b . 1 0 * * * * * * * * 0 4 2 11 2 4c . sub . b . 2 14 * * * * * * * * 5 8 5 13 3 4c . sub . b . 3 * 3 * 13 * 5 * 8 * 5 * * 14 * 4__________________________________________________________________________ c . sub . b . 3 ( x )=( α . sup . 3 x . sup . 7 + α . sup . 13 x . sup . 6 + α . sup . 12 x . sup . 5 + α . sup . 14 x . sup . 4 + α . sup . 13 x . sup . 3 + α . sup . 13 x . sup . 2 + α . sup . 10 x + α ) g . sub . 2 . 3 ( x ) over gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b . 3 ( x ) (= f b ( x )). the generator polynomial g 2 . 3 ( x ) is given in equation ( 34 ). c b . 3 in addition to c b . 1 and c b . 2 is associated with an encoder of the &# 34 ; conventional &# 34 ; type . the fourth transformation is the one - to - one mapping of symbols in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b ( x ) onto symbols in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f g ( x ). the mapping is discussed above under the heading &# 34 ; mathematical characterization of rs symbols &# 34 ; and appears in table iii . by mapping the rs symbols comprising a codeword in code b . 3 the corresponding codeword in code g is obtained . the generator polynomials g 2 . 3 ( x ) of c b . 3 in ( 34 ) and g 1 ( x ) of c g in equation ( 19 ) reflect the foregoing mapping . ## equ39 ## as first introduced in ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) where the primitive element change was developed in preparation for the last transformation involving field element conversion the mapping of coefficients α i of x j to β 7i of x j confirms the expanded form of g 1 ( x ). ## equ40 ## note that g 2 . 3 ( x ) and g 1 ( x ) are codeword polynomials of c b . 3 ( x ) and c g ( x ), respectively . the transformation ( field element conversion ) is applicable to every codeword polynomial in c b . 3 ( x ). as discussed in the section on &# 34 ; mathematical characterization of rs symbols ,&# 34 ; the mapping α i → β 7 is realizable by table look - up or by employing the linear transformation matrix ## equ41 ## mapping the rs symbols of c b . 3 in this example in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b ( x ) onto symbols in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f g ( x ) results in codeword c g . codeword c g is the outcome of the fourth and last transformation in the following tabulation of successive transformations for mapping codeword c b in example 10 to c g . __________________________________________________________________________k of c . sub . k 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c ac . sub . b . 1 0 * * * * * * * * 0 4 2 11 2 4c . sub . b . 2 14 * * * * * * * * 5 8 5 13 3 4c . sub . b . 3 * 3 * 13 * 5 * 8 * 5 * * 14 * 4c . sub . g * 6 * 1 * 5 * 11 * 5 * * 8 * 13__________________________________________________________________________ the codeword polynomial c g ( x ) contains g 1 ( x ) as a factor . c . sub . g ( x )=( β . sup . 6 x . sup . 7 + βx . sup . 6 + β . sup . 9 x . sup . 5 + β . sup . 8 x . sup . 4 + βx . sup . 3 + β . sup . 2 + β . sup . 10 x + β . sup . 7 ) g . sub . 1 ( x ) the following are two examples of the results of a succession of transformations which map a given codeword in c b onto one in c g . these represent typical test cases for testing the overall transformation because of the known structure of c b or c g . __________________________________________________________________________k of c . sub . k 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b d d d d d d d d d d d d d d dc . sub . b . 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3c . sub . b . 2 2 1 0 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3c . sub . b . 3 11 4 12 5 13 6 14 7 0 8 1 9 2 10 3c . sub . g 2 13 9 5 1 12 8 4 0 11 7 3 14 10 6__________________________________________________________________________ the 15 symbols of c g above ( expressed as i of β i ) are distinct . __________________________________________________________________________k of c . sub . k 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b a a d 0 0 0 0 3 9 3 0 0 0 0 dc . sub . b . 1 4 4 3 * * * * 5 1 5 * * * * 3c . sub . b . 2 3 2 0 * * * * 12 7 10 * * * * 3c . sub . b . 3 * * * * * * * * 0 10 2 7 3 12 3c . sub . g * * * * * * * * 0 10 14 4 6 9 6__________________________________________________________________________ the codeword polynomial c g ( x ) with coefficients c g above is g 1 ( x ), a codeword polynomial ( of lowest degree ). given two codewords in any ( n , k ) rs code . every linear combination of the codewords is a codeword . for each of the four transformations discussed in connection with ( 15 , 9 ) rs codes , the transformation of the linear combination of two codewords is equal to the &# 34 ; sum &# 34 ; of the transformations on the two codewords . this is illustrated for the overall transformation of codewords c b in code b . 1 to codewords c g with intermediate results omitted . codeword c b 3 ( below ) is a linear combination of codewords c b 1 and c b 2 . codewords c g 3 , c g 1 and c g 2 are the result of four successive transformations on c b 3 , c b 1 and c b 2 respectively . __________________________________________________________________________k of ck 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________c . sub . b . sup . 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 a c 6 c ac . sub . b . sup . 2 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a f 5 b 9 4c . sub . b . sup . 3 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 d 5 9 5 ec . sub . g . sup . 1 * 6 * 1 * 5 * 11 * 5 * * 8 * 13c . sub . g . sup . 2 * 14 * 2 * 7 * 10 * 3 1 * * * 10c . sub . g . sup . 3 * 8 * 5 * 13 * 14 * 11 1 * 8 * 9__________________________________________________________________________ refer to example 5 where rs symbols in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f g ( x ) are tabulated to verify that the symbol - by - symbol &# 34 ; addition &# 34 ; of c g 1 and c g 2 gives c g 3 . a received word r b which may contain erroneous symbols may be viewed as a symbol - by - symbol &# 34 ; sum &# 34 ; of c b with a symbol error pattern or sequence . where r k = c k if and only if e k is an all o &# 39 ; s symbol . note that e k is not to be confused with e , an integer which denotes the maximum number of erroneous rs symbols that are correctable . if the number of erroneous symbols is within the error correction capability r g will be corrected by the decoder designed for code g . clearly r g is the result of four successive transformations on the linear combination corresponding symbols comprising c b and a symbol error sequence . the decoder determines the transformed error sequence and &# 34 ; subtracts &# 34 ; it from r g to determine c g . the inverses of the successive transformations ( which were applied to r b to determine r g ) are successively applied to c g in reverse order to recover c b . clearly r b ( x ), intermediate word polynomials and r g ( x ) will not be divisible by their respective generator polynomials . the inverses of transformations in order of their application on codewords c g are summarized as follows : coefficients of codeword polynomials c g ( x ) in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f g ( x ) are mapped into corresponding coefficients of codeword polynomials c b . 3 ( x ) in gf ( 2 4 ) defined by f b ( x ). see table iii . this is achieved by table look - up or employing the linear transformation matrix ( as discussed in the section on &# 34 ; mathematical characterization of rs symbols .&# 34 ;) ## equ42 ## and m . sub . βα is the inverse of m . sub . αβ associated with field element conversion . a primitive element change from α 13 ( resulting from field element conversion inverse β → α 13 ) to α 4 is required . the solution to is w = 13 the inverse of y = 7 in equation ( 32 ). the respective generator polynomials for codes g , b . 3 , b . 2 , b . 1 and b are fixed . in the reverse applications of inverse transformations , codeword polynomials c b . 2 ( x ) must contain all the roots of g 2 . 2 ( x ) in order to contain g 2 . 2 ( x ) as a factor . thus and c b . 2 ( x ) is derived from c b . 3 ( x ) by the following permutation of the coefficients of c b . 3 ( x ). where 7 k is reduced modulo 15 . the foregoing arguments follow those that resulted in expressions ( 34 ), ( 35 ) and ( 36 ). the permutation 13 k in ( 36 ) subsequently followed by its inverse returns the symbols of c b . 2 ( i . e ., symbols of r b . 2 corrected ) to their original position . 3 ). translation of the powers of roots ( of g 2 . 2 ( x )) inverse of interest is the effect of the inverse translation of the powers of roots of g 2 . 2 ( x ). given ## equ43 ## and c b . 2 ( α 14 x ) is a code b . 1 codeword polynomial . 4 ). conversion from { α i } basis to { l j } basis see table iv . this can be done by table look - up or by using the linear transformation matrix ## equ44 ## t . sub . αl is the inverse of ## equ45 ## r b is a received word originating from code b with erroneous symbols . successive transformations are applied to obtain r g . r g is decoded whereby erroneous symbols are corrected to determine c g a valid codeword in code g . successive inverse transformations are then applied to c g to recover c b , the codeword in code b most likely to have been sent . symbols r 14 , r 5 and r 2 in word r b are in error . since three erroneous symbols are within the symbol error - correcting capability ( i . e ., 2e = 15 - 9 and e = 3 ), they are corrected when r g is decoded into c g . italicized entries in the following table are symbol changes resulting from the decoding process . __________________________________________________________________________k of c . sub . k 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0__________________________________________________________________________r . sub . b d 3 f 6 9 d 2 e 5 7 2 c 9 2 fr . sub . b . 1 3 5 6 11 1 3 7 12 13 0 7 2 1 7 6r . sub . b . 2 2 3 3 7 11 12 0 4 4 5 11 5 3 8 6r . sub . b . 3 0 8 12 3 11 5 7 11 3 5 3 4 2 4 6r . sub . g 0 11 9 6 2 5 4 2 6 5 6 13 14 13 12c . sub . g 0 11 9 2 2 5 4 2 6 13 6 13 6 13 12c . sub . b . 3 0 8 12 11 11 5 7 11 3 4 3 4 3 4 6c . sub . b . 2 3 3 3 7 11 12 0 4 4 4 11 5 11 8 6c . sub . b . 1 4 5 6 11 1 3 7 12 13 14 7 2 9 7 6c . sub . b a 3 f 6 9 d 2 e 5 1 2 c b 2 f__________________________________________________________________________ the transformational equivalence of berlekamp and conventional rs codes for ( n , k )=( 255 , 223 ) a hardware ground decoder has been designed and built and is operating to decode a ( 255 , 223 ) rs code . the code is associated with a conventional encoder aboard the in - flight interplanetary galileo and voyager spacecraft . all future interplanetary space probes , starting with mars observer , that utilize rs encoding must use the berlekamp representation detailed in &# 34 ; telemetry channel coding &# 34 ; recommendation , ccsds 101 . 0 - b - 2 blue book , consultive committee for space data systems , january 1987 . a succession of transformations and their inverses have been developed , programmed and incorporated into the system hardware . words originating from code b are mapped ( by means of successive transformations ) onto words in code g , and decoded for symbol error correction . if the number of erroneous symbols are within the error correction capability of the code , the decoded word is a codeword in code g . it is then mapped ( by means of successive inverse transformations applied in reverse order ) onto the codeword in code b most likely to have been transmitted . the parameters of the codes are j = 8 and e = 16 . fig4 a , b , c and d illustrate a flow chart of the process for transforming words r b with possible errors in a berlekamp code to words r g in a conventional code for decoding the words r g having possible errors to codewords c g free of error . that is accomplished in blocks 100 , 110 , 120 , 130 , 140 and 150 in fig4 a and b . the corrected codewords c g are then reverse transformed symbol - by - symbol back into codewords c b in the berlekamp code . the uncorrected words in the berlekamp code and the conventional code are here denoted by the letter r with subscripts b and g , respectively , because they are with possible error . until corrected in block 150 , fig4 b , they are not denoted codewords by the letter c with first the subscript g and later in the process the subscript b . the codewords c g are not information , because in the process of transformation from r b to r g for decoding ( i . e ., correcting errors ) they have undergone permutation . to retrieve the information , the codewords c g must be transformed back into codewords c b by inverse transformation in a reverse order of process steps , as will be illustrated by the following examples . a mathematical description of each of the ( 255 , 223 ) rs codes is presented as follows : ## equ46 ## elements in gf ( 2 8 ) defined by f b ( x ) in equation ( 37 ) represented in basis { α i } and basis { l j } appear in table v . table v______________________________________elements of gf ( 2 . sup . 8 ) defined by f . sub . b ( x ) = x . sup . 8 + x . sup . 7 + x . sup . 2 + x + 1 in basis { α . sup . i } and basis { l . sub . j }. i of α . sup . i i of b . sub . i tr ( α . sup . i ) j of v . sub . j______________________________________ 76543210 01234567 * 00000000 0 000000000 00000001 0 011110111 00000010 1 101011112 00000100 1 100110013 00001000 1 111110104 00010000 1 100001105 00100000 1 111011006 01000000 1 111011117 10000000 1 100011018 10000111 1 110000009 10001001 0 0000110010 10010101 1 1110100111 10101101 0 0111100112 11011101 1 1111110013 00111101 0 0111001014 01111010 1 1101000015 11110100 1 1001000116 01101111 1 1011010017 11011110 0 0010100018 00111011 0 0100010019 01110110 1 1011001120 11101100 1 1110110121 01011111 1 1101111022 10111110 0 0010101123 11111011 0 0010011024 01110001 1 1111111025 11100010 0 0010000126 01000011 0 0011101127 10000110 1 1011101128 10001011 1 1010001129 10010001 0 0111000030 10100101 1 1000001131 11001101 0 0111101032 00011101 1 1001111033 00111010 0 0011111134 01110100 0 0001110035 11101000 0 0111010036 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0 01000111250 10110110 1 11010001251 11101011 1 10100000252 01010001 0 00010010253 10100010 1 11001110254 11000011 1 10110110______________________________________ the coefficients ( g 32 , g 31 , . . . , g 0 ) of g 2 ( x ) in equation ( 38 ), the self - reciprocal generator polynomial over gf ( 2 8 ) of code b are __________________________________________________________________________g . sub . 32 → 0 249 59 66 4 43 126 251 97 30 3 213 50 66 170 5 24 5 170 66 50 213 3 30 97 251 126 43 4 66 59 249 0 ← g . sub . 0__________________________________________________________________________ expressed as i of α i in table v . note that are 15 distinct nonzero entries and ( the { t l } linear functions of z i components for designing the linear binary matrix in fig2 can be found in ref . [ 3 ]). where β 8 = β 4 + β 3 + β 2 + 1 ## equ47 ## elements in gf ( 2 8 ) defined by f g ( x ) in ( 41 ) are given in table vi . the coefficients ( g 32 , g 31 , . . . , g 0 ) of g 1 ( x ) in ( 41 ), the generator polynomial over gf ( 2 8 ) of code g are __________________________________________________________________________g . sub . 32 → 0 11 8 109 194 254 173 11 75 218 148 149 44 0 137 104 43 137 203 99 176 59 91 194 84 53 248 107 80 28 215 251 18 ← g . sub . 0__________________________________________________________________________ expressed as i of β i in table vi . note that there 28 distinct nonzero entries corresponding to 28 different multipliers . transformations between berlekamp and galileo ( voyager ) ( 255 , 223 ) rs codes are summarized as follows : 1 ). conversion from { l j } basis and { α i } basis ( block 110 ) and its inverse ( block 190 ). refer to table v . symbol - by - symbol conversion may be provided by table look - up . also post - multiplication on the 8 - bit binary vector representation of a symbol by the linear transformation matrix t l α realizes the conversion . the transformation matrix and its inverse is derived from table v . table vi______________________________________elements in gf ( 2 . sup . 8 ) defined byf . sub . g ( x ) = x . sup . 8 + x . sup . 4 + x . sup . 3 + x . sup . 2 + 1 . i of β . sup . i i of c . sub . i______________________________________ 76543210 * 00000000 0 00000001 1 00000010 2 00000100 3 00001000 4 00010000 5 00100000 6 01000000 7 10000000 8 00011101 9 00111010 10 01110100 11 11101000 12 11001101 13 10000111 14 00010011 15 00100110 16 01001100 17 10011000 18 00101101 19 01011010 20 10110100 21 01110101 22 11101010 23 11001001 24 10001111 25 00000011 26 00000110 27 00001100 28 00011000 29 00110000 30 01100000 31 11000000 32 10011101 33 00100111 34 01001110 35 10011100 36 00100101 37 01001010 38 10010100 39 00110101 40 01101010 41 11010100 42 10110101 43 01110111 44 11101110 45 11000001 46 10011111 47 00100011 48 01000110 49 10001100 50 00000101 51 00001010 52 00010100 53 00101000 54 01010000 55 10100000 56 01011101 57 10111010 58 01101001 59 11010010 60 10111001 61 01101111 62 11011110 63 10100001 64 01011111 65 10111110 66 01100001 67 11000010 68 10011001 69 00101111 70 01011110 71 10111100 72 01100101 73 11001010 74 10001001 75 00001111 76 00011110 77 00111100 78 01111000 79 11110000 80 11111101 81 11100111 82 11010011 83 10111011 84 01101011 85 11010110 86 10110001 87 01111111 88 11111110 89 11100001 90 11011111 91 10100011 92 01011011 93 10110110 94 01110001 95 11100010 96 11011001 97 10101111 98 01000011 99 10000110 100 00010001 101 00100010 102 01000100 103 10001000 104 00001101 105 00011010 106 00110100 107 01101000 108 11010000 109 10111101 110 01100111 111 11001110 112 10000001 113 00011111 114 00111110 115 01111100 116 11111000 117 11101101 118 11000111 119 10010011 120 00111011 121 01110110 122 11101100 123 11000101 124 10010111 125 00110011 126 01100110 127 11001100 128 10000101 129 00010111 130 00101110 131 01011100 132 10111000 133 01101101 134 11011010 135 10101001 136 01001111 137 10011110 138 00100001 139 01000010 140 10000100 141 00010101 142 00101010 143 01010100 144 10101000 145 01001101 146 10011010 147 00101001 148 01010010 149 10100100 150 01010101 151 10101010 152 01001001 153 10010010 154 00111001 155 01110010 156 11100100 157 11010101 158 10110111 159 01110011 160 11100110 161 11010001 162 10111111 163 01100011 164 11000110 165 10010001 166 00111111 167 01111110 168 11111100 169 11100101 170 11010111 171 10110011 172 01111011 173 11110110 174 11110001 175 11111111 176 11100011 177 11011011 178 10101011 179 01001011 180 10010110 181 00110001 182 01100010 183 11000100 184 10010101 185 00110111 186 01101110 187 11011100 188 10100101 189 01010111 190 10101110 191 01000001 192 10000010 193 00011001 194 00110010 195 01100100 196 11001000 197 10001101 198 00000111 199 00001110 200 00011100 201 00111000 202 01110000 203 11100000 204 11011101 205 10100111 206 01010011 207 10100110 208 01010001 209 10100010 210 01011001 211 10110010 212 01111001 213 11110010 214 11111001 215 11101111 216 11000011 217 10011011 218 00101011 219 01010110 220 10101100 221 01000101 222 10001010 223 00001001 224 00010010 225 00100100 226 01001000 227 10010000 228 00111101 229 01111010 230 11110100 231 11110101 232 11110111 233 11110011 234 11111011 235 11101011 236 11001011 237 10001011 238 00001011 239 00010110 240 00101100 241 01011000 242 10110000 243 01111101 244 11111010 245 11101001 246 11001111 247 10000011 248 00011011 249 00110110 250 01101100 251 11011000 252 10101101 253 01000111 254 10001110______________________________________ ## equ48 ## table look - up can provide the inverse transformation or ## equ49 ## 2 ). translation of powers of roots in g 2 . 1 ( x ) ( block 120 ) and its inverse ( block 180 ). the degree 32 generator polynomial g 2 . 1 ( x )= g 2 ( x ) as given in ( 38 ). translating j running from 112 to 143 in the product summation form to run from 1 to 32 requires a change in the argument x . see ref . [ 12 ] and the discussion in section 5 . a . ( dealing with ( 15 , 9 ) rs codes ) leading to example 11 and subsequent expressions involving the effect of the inverse translation . omitting the step - by - step derivation of g 2 . 2 ( x ) from g 2 . 1 ( x ) and codeword polynomial c b . 2 ( x ) from c b . 1 ( x ) the results over gf ( 2 8 ) defined by f b ( x ) are ## equ50 ## the coefficients ( g 32 , g 31 , . . . , g 0 ) of g 2 . 2 ( x ) in ( 42 ), the generator polynomial over gf ( 2 8 ) of code b . 2 are t2 - g 32 →? 0 48 167 228 220 58 195 119 19 63 3 ? - 42 188 3 161 50 123 158 122 72 110 72 - 171 252 118 71 0 226 241 102 149 138 198 ← g 0 ? - following are the results associated with the inverse translation : ## equ51 ## 3 ). permutation ( block 130 ) and its inverse ( block 170 ) which accounts for a primitive element change in preparation for converting field elements defined by f b ( x ) to those defined by f g ( x ) an isomorphism between the two representations of gf ( 2 8 ) must be established . see section 2 . and ref . [ 2 ]. it may be verified from tables v and vi that the one - to - one mapping is an isomorphism . the elements α and β 212 have the same minimal polynomial , namely , f b ( x ). also a primitive element change in ( 42 ) from α 11 to α 83 is needed prior to field element conversion . the unique solution to and the inverse of y is 37 ( i . e ., 193 × 37 . tbd . 1 ). the primitive element change in ( 42 ) corresponds to g 2 . 2 ( x ) becoming ## equ52 ## in order for c b . 3 ( x ) to contain g 2 . 3 ( x ) as a factor , the coefficients of c b . 3 ( x ) is a permutation of the coefficients of c b . 2 ( x ). that is since 37 ( the inverse of 193 ) has no common factor with 255 (= 3 × 5 × 17 ) the permutation in ( 47 ) is guaranteed ( i . e ., no two coefficients will map to the same position ). similarly the inverse permutation is associated with the change of primitive element from the coefficients of c b . 2 ( x ) is the following permutation of the coefficients of c b . 2 ( x ) the coefficients ( g 32 , g 31 , . . . , g 0 ) of g 2 . 3 ( x ) in ( 46 ), the generator polynomial over gf ( 2 8 ) of code b . 3 are __________________________________________________________________________g . sub . 32 → 0 148 154 122 37 172 79 148 105 244 44 127 82 0 151 217 254 151 19 57 73 52 158 37 87 64 184 211 10 29 250 178 219 ← g . sub . 0__________________________________________________________________________ coefficients of codeword polynomials c b . 3 ( x ) ( including g 2 . 3 ( x ), a codeword polynomial of minimum degree ) in gf ( 2 8 ) defined by f b ( x ) are mapped into corresponding coefficients of codeword polynomials c g ( x ). the one - to - one mapping is achievable by table look - up . the conversion can also be done by the linear matrix equation ## equ53 ## the inverse field element transformation is the symbol - by - symbol mapping from gf ( 2 8 ) defined by f g ( x ) to gf ( 2 8 ) defined by f b ( x ) the symbols to be mapped are decoded word symbols emanating from the ground decoder . the one - to - one mapping is mapping can be done by table look - up or by means of the linear matrix equation ## equ54 ## it should be again noted that because of the linearity of the rs codes and the transformations the symbols of a word originating from code b are and r k is a linear sum is transformed until the word r g is obtained . upon decoding r g , c g is obtained if the number of erroneous symbols is within the error correction capability of the ( 255 , 223 ) rs code . see example 15 . symbols in error remain in error after successive forward transformations even if the number of erroneous symbols exceed the error correction capability of the rs code . although specific examples have been given of the transformation of the ( berlekamp ) code , c b , to a specific conventional code , c g , it should be appreciated that the invention is useful in transforming any ( n , k ) rs code over gf ( 2 j ) to another ( n , k ) rs code over gf ( 2 j ). this rs coding for error protection has wide applications in communication channels ( from here to there ) and storage devices ( from now until then ), for example , magnetic disc or tape , optical disc , and solid - stage memories .