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12 years ago

Reed Solomon IPcore 13.0 problem

Hello, I'm trying to use the evaluation version of the RS encoder and decoder. I configured it as (223,255) with 8bit symbols and cascaded them, generating the control signals with the following ...
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12 years ago

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Thank you,

I have only one concern: the decoder gives as output (I'm not introducing errors between encoder and decoder) the same word it gets as input, or it doesn't get rid of the redundant symbols. Is that possible? If so, I should write a module that chops those extra symbols...it seems to be weird for a decoder.

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It could be that the decoder ejects data and the extra bits but tells you where valid out is. What really matters is does it correct errors. Insert few errors (dispersed) and see.