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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, April 3, 2004 3:37:20 am | by OndrejJombik | Revert |
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[Acronym] for __E__rror __C__orrecting __C__odes.
Usually refers to Hamming codes. I never really understood these things, but they work, and I've never had to implement them, so I'm happy.
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+Also known as:
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+__E__rror __C__hecking and __C__orrecting. Parity can only detect errors, but ECC can also repair it, assuming that there are only single bit errors now and then. It requires only 30% or such more bits to be transmitted.
