Review of FPGA Implementation of Reed-Solomon Encoder-Decoder

Abstract

An important function of any modern digital communication system is error control coding (ECC). Such coding is the field of communications that deals with techniques for detecting and correcting errors in a signal. ECC is especially useful in wireless communication systems. RS codes are the most powerful in the family of linear block codes and are arguably the most widely used type of error control codes. RS code is a type of Forward Error Correction (FEC) code and it is a nonbinary, linear and cyclic block error correcting code. In this paper, the proposed work is to implement the encoder and decoder of Reed-Solomon (RS) coding scheme on the platform of VLSI using the Euclid's algorithm. Implementation will be done on VLSI Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and the operation and results can be seen on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).