Several techniques can be used to efficiently implement a Hamming coder for single-bit error correction and double-bit error detection.

The most common type uses Hamming codes, which can correct one error and detect two errors. This “single-error-correct, double-error-detect” approach is often abbreviated SECDED.

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 ...