A pipeline structure for high-speed step-by-step RS decoding 

[[abstract]]Based on a modified step-by-step decoding procedure, a high-speed pipelined Reed-Solomon decoder is presented. The decoder requires only the delay time of three 2-input XOR gates for decoding each coded symbol. The decoder can be operated in a bit rate of Gbits/sec order and thus suitable for the very high speed data transmission systems.[[note]]SC