Toshiba TLCS-900/H1 Series Manual page 216

Reed-Solomon ECC
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The ECC generator generates 80 bits of ECC for up to 518 bytes of valid data.
If the NAND Flash to be used has a large-capacity page size (e.g. 2048 bytes),
the error correction process must be repeated several times to cover the entire
page.
• Basically no calculation is needed for error correction. If error detection is
performed properly, the NDFC only needs to refer to the error address and
error bit. However, it may be necessary to convert the error address, as
explained below.
1) If the error address indicated by the NDRSCAn register is in the range of 000H to
007H, this error exists in the ECC area and no correction is needed in this case.
(It is not able to correct the error in the ECC area. However, if the error exists in the
ECC area, only 4symbol (include the error in the ECC area) can correct the error to this
LSI. Please be careful.)
2) If the error address indicated by the NDRSCAn register is in the range of 008H to
20DH, the actual error address is obtained by subtracting this address from 20 DH.
(If the valid data is processed as 512 byte, the actual error address is obtained by
subtracting this address from 207H when the error address in the range of 008H to
207H.)
Example 1:
NDRSCAn = 005H, NDRSCDn = 04H = 00000100B
As the error address (005H) is in the range of 000H to 007H, no correction is
needed.
(Although an error exists in bit 2, no correction is needed.)
Example 2:
NDRSCAn = 083H, NDRSCDn = 81H = 10000001B
The actual error address is obtained by subtracting 083H from 20DH. Thus, the
error correction process inverts the data in bits 7 and 0 at address 18AH.
(If the valid data is 512 byte, the actual error address is obtained by subtracting
083H from 207H. Thus, the error correction process inverts the data in bits 7 and
0 at address 184H.)
Note: If the error address (after converted) is in the range of 000H to 007H, it indicates that an error bit exists in
redundant area (ECC). In this case, no error correction is needed. If the number of error bits is not more than
4 symbols, Reed-Solomon codes calculate each error bit precisely even if it is the redundant area (ECC).
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