Thursday, December 28, 2023

New, faster version of HDLEN

 A new, faster version of hdlen is now available (version 2.0.0).

This uses a hash table to dramatically speed up determining the maximum data word length for each Hamming Distance for any particular CRC polynomial.

More info here: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/crc/hdlen.html



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