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A New Chip for Decoding Data Transmissions demonstrates Record-breaking Energy Efficiency

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Caption:This new decoder chip uses a universal decoding algorithm that MIT researchers previously developed, which can unravel any error correcting code. It has broken the record for energy-efficient decoding, performing between 10 and 100 times better than other hardware.
Credits:Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT

Imagine using an online banking app to deposit money into your account. Like all information sent over the internet, those communications could be corrupted by noise that inserts errors into the data.

To overcome this problem, senders encode data before they are transmitted, and then a receiver uses a decoding algorithm to correct errors and recover the original message...

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