Architecture for VLSI Design of Reed-Solomon Decoders

In this paper, the known decoding procedures for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are modified to obtain a repetitive and recursive decoding technique which is suitable for VLSI implementation and pipelining. The chip architectures of two basic building blocks for VLSI RS decoder systems are then presented. It is shown that a VLSI RS decoder has the potential advantage of achieving a high decoding speed through parallel-pipeline processing.