Choice of Coding System for Error Protection of Storage Devices

The authors describe a method of choosing a noise-stable coding system for protecting storage devices from independent errors of both the storage bits themselves and of parallel coders and decoders. It is shown that there is a substantial difference from the choice of coding system intended for a communications channel. Preference is given to systems with one-step majority decoding. The method is illustrated using 12 coding systems, for which detailed parameters of the principal code, encoder, and decoder parameters are given.