Cyclic redundancy check circuit for use with self-synchronous scramblers
First Claim
1. A circuit for detecting and correcting errors in a bit stream, said circuit including at least two logical gates that determine if at least one of a plurality of conditions is present, each one of said plurality of conditions indicating at least one error in said bit stream and activation of at least one of said at least two logical gates changes a state of a specific bit in said bit stream to correct at least one error.
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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 (CRC) 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.
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- 1. A circuit for detecting and correcting errors in a bit stream, said circuit including at least two logical gates that determine if at least one of a plurality of conditions is present, each one of said plurality of conditions indicating at least one error in said bit stream and activation of at least one of said at least two logical gates changes a state of a specific bit in said bit stream to correct at least one error.
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