An area-efficient very large scale integration architecture for modified Euclidean algorithm with dynamic storage technique

A Modified Euclidean (ME) algorithm has been used to solve the key equations in Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding. In this article, the degree properties of the ME algorithm are derived. On the basis of the degree properties, an area-efficient very large scale integration (VLSI) architecture with dynamic storage technique is proposed to perform the ME algorithm. The dynamic storage technique is used to avoid data exchange and save hardware resources. The proposed architecture with dynamic storage technique can reduce 50% computation hardware area and about 30% memory hardware area. VLSI implementation results of different RS codes show that the proposed architecture is significantly area-efficient, especially for RS codes with long code lengths.