Many types of error-correcting techniques exist, but in data communications, Hamming encoding probably finds the widest use. Unlike serial-port communications that use a single parity bit, Hamming ...

In 1950 Bell Labs researcher Richard W. Hamming made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the entire modern computing and communications industries. He had invented a code for ...

Editor's Note: I am delighted to have the opportunity topresent the following piece from the fourth quarter 2010 issue of XcellJournal, with the kind permission of Xilinx Inc. Dramatic surges in FPGA ...