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LINEAR SEQUENTIAL NETWORKS Concepts and Applications By: Tom Truong and Shaun Evans Linear Sequential Networks are the enabling device for a multitude of different communication technologies. With LSN’s, communication can be made more reliable by using forward error correction techniques via block codes and convolutional codes. The realization of these codes can result in a large implementation. However, if a cyclic code is employed, then a polynomial form of the code can be used and a larger implementation can be replaced with a relatively small shift-register implementation. This is where LSN’s prove to be a very practical device in error correction and detection. When a channel needs more data integrity or an increase in data rates causes burst errors, LSN’s can be used to overcome the problem. This can be seen in wire, wireless and optical channels. Forward Error Correction (FEC) and error detection is one area in communication design that utilizes the concept of LSN’s. FEC uses redundancy to improve the reliability of a communication channel. This increase in redundancy results in lower data transmission rates but can result in a channel that has fewer errors or a channel that can use less power because it can tolerate more errors [1]. Conversely, if the data rate is to be kept the same, the bandwidth would have to be increased to accommodate the additional redundancy bits. Forward Error Correction schemes can operate on the current data without the need to look at previously received symbols, hence always moving in a forward fashion. FEC codes can be classified into two main categories: block codes and convolutional codes. A block code can be characterized as a code that can be generated using only information from its current block of information. If the code needs information both from current and previous blocks, then the code is considered to be a convolutional code [2]. In either case, the code will generate a number of parity bits tha