Nonbinary BCH and Reed-Solomon Codes Next: Systematic Form Encoding Up: Encoding/Decoding Reed Solomon Codes Previous: Construction of Galois Field Nonbinary BCH and Reed-Solomon Codes BCH codes = large class of powerful random error correcting cyclic codes. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes = most important among the nonbinary BCH codes. A t-error correcting RS code with symbols from GF has the following parameters: A -ary (n,k) cyclic code is generated by a polynomial of degree n-k with coefficients from GF , which is a factor of . A. Matache Sun Oct 20 17:42:25 PDT 1996