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 ...

He had invented a code for correcting errors in communication and the Hamming code was born. CIO Blast from the Past takes a journey through 60 years of information theory and discovers how the ...

In the following article, Tony Chan-Carusone explores the critical role of Forward Error Correction (FEC) in high-speed wireline networking, particularly with the adoption of PAM4 modulation for ...