TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Rajab, Mohammed
A1  - Shavgulidze, Sergo
A1  - Freudenberger, Jürgen
T1  - Soft-input Bit-flipping Decoding of Generalized Concatenated Codes for Application in Non-volatile Flash Memories
JF  - IET Communications
N2  - Error correction coding based on soft-input decoding can significantly improve the reliability of non-volatile flash memories. This work proposes a soft-input decoder for generalized concatenated (GC) codes. GC codes are well suited for error correction in flash memories for high reliability data storage. We propose GC codes constructed from inner extended binary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes and outer Reed-Solomon codes. The extended BCH codes enable an efficient hard-input decoding. Furthermore, a low-complexity soft-input decoding method is proposed. This bit-flipping decoder uses a fixed number of test patterns and an algebraic decoder for soft-decoding. An acceptance criterion for the final candidate codeword is proposed. Combined with error and erasure decoding of the outer Reed-Solomon codes, this acceptance criterion can improve the decoding performance and reduce the decoding complexity. The presented simulation results show that the proposed bit-flipping decoder in combination with outer error and erasure decoding can outperform maximum likelihood decoding of the inner codes.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5534
SN  - 1751-8636
SS  - 1751-8636
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5534
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2018.5534
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  -