A high-speed and low-latency Reed-Solomon decoder based on a dual-line structure

TLDR: In this article, the authors proposed a new decoding structure of Reed-Solomon codes that can operate as fast as the serial structure and has as short latency as the parallel structure.

Abstract: This paper presents a new decoding structure of Reed-Solomon ( RS) codes that are widely used for channel coding. Although many decoding structures have been developed, the serial structures have long latency and the parallel structures are not fast enough to deal with the demands of high-speed decoding. To achieve both short latency and fast ope,ration, the summation of the products of syndromes is eliminated and the difference used to calculate the error locator polynomial is incrementally updated. The proposed structure called a dual-line structure can operate as fast as the serial structure and has as short latency as the parallel structure. In addition, the dual-line structure is regular and easy to implement. Experimental results confirm these advantages at the cost of a small hardware increase.