On 10 Jun 2012, at 1:38 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Any idea why a
16 bits system would have a 21 bit wide semiconductor memory. ?
ECC? Is 21 bits enough to detect and correct any signle-bit error?
It's enough for SECDED; it meets the famous D + P + 1 <= 2^P test.
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