Hard decisions constitute the major problem in digital watermarking applications, especially when content adaptive embedding methods are used. Soft-decision decoding, on the other hand, has proved to be performance gaining, often realized during forward error correction. But despite this insight, no adaptive watermarking approach integrates the adaptation process into soft decoding, up to now. ...

Error correction codes are used in semiconductor memories to protect information against soft and hard errors. Soft error is a major concern for memory reliability especially for memories that are used in space applications. Hamming codes are attractive as they are simple to construct for any word length and encoding / decoding can be done with low latency. In this paper, the design of Single E...

As technology scales, radiation induced soft errors create more complex error patterns in memories with a single particle corrupting several bits. This poses challenge to the Error Correction Codes (ECCs) traditionally used protect that can correct only bit errors. During last decade, number of codes have been developed emerging patterns, focusing initially on double adjacent and later three bu...