Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at the Institute of Science Tokyo have announced a breakthrough in quantum error ...

These novel error-correction codes can handle quantum codes with hundreds of thousands of qubits, potentially enabling large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing, with applications in diverse fields ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.) and the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech, President ...

High-density NAND flash memories are key components in the burgeoning consumer market. Applications are rapidly expanding beyond USB keys and MP3 players to cell phones, media players, and game ...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a type of error-correction code increasingly used in applications requiring highly efficient information transfer over channels with the presence of ...

As with any electronic system, errors in the memory subsystem are possible due to design failures/defects or electrical noise in any one of the components. These errors are classified as either ...

FEC (forward error correction), a critical component of many modern digital-communications applications, turns otherwise-unusable links into real and practical ...

As memory bit cells of any type become smaller, bit error rates increase due to lower margins and process variation. This can be dealt with using error correction to ...