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From: dahl@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Dahl)
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Subject: Re: Reed Solomon Code code
Keywords: error-correcting codes
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Date: 7 Feb 91 17:35:36 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.000327.15642@intellistor.com> warner@intellistor.com (Dave Warner) writes:
>In <5131@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> hqm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Henry Minsky) writes:

>>I am trying to find source code or descriptions of software (or
>>hardware) algorithms for Reed Solomon encoding/decoding. Specifically,
>>I am interested in something which emulates the Cross Interleaved
>>Reed-Solomon coding found on CDs, and the double encoding found on
>>CD-ROMS.

>Try Neal Glover's book "Practical Error Correction Design for Engineers."
>It was published privately and I don't see an ISBN number but Neal
>I think can still be reached at (303)466-5228/5482.  His company
>was bought out by Cirrus a while ago but I think the number is still
>good.  Excellent book.

Also try this one: "Error-Control Coding for Computer Systems", T. Rao and
E. Fujiwara, Prentice-Hall, 1989, ISBN 0-13-283953-9.  This has a good
description of RS coding, but not the discussion is not specific to CDs
so you may have to figure it out.

peter dahl@src.honeywell.com
I had fun once, and it wasn't anything like this