Abstract Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes belong to a powerful class of cyclic block codes that can be used to improve the performance of a communication link by detecting or correcting errors. BCH codes are considered to be the best of the binary block codes and are commonly used as a Forward Error Correction (FEC) technique in military and commercial communcation systems. Since the discovery of BCH codes, many mathematicians have developed decoding algorithms that can be implemented in...

Abstract Todays, [sic] expanded demand for digital signal processors (DSPs) require them to perform at higher and higher data rates. Many of the existing commercial available general purpose DSPs with their generic mulitply and add structure do not adequately meet this high data rate signal processing requirement. However, recent advances in higher density and faster field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have shown that, as configurable digital signal processing...