ERROR CORRECTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ERROR CORRECTING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM

摘要

An error correcting device (10) comprises an input (12) connectable to receive one or more data units, an error detection module (14) arranged to identify a presence of one or more errors in a received data unit (16) of the one or more data units and to provide an error detection signal (18) for the received data unit, an error correction module (20) arranged to perform an error correction processing on the received data unit and provide a corrected data unit (22), and a correction evaluation module (24) arranged to perform a comparison of the received data unit with the corrected data unit and to generate a correction error signal (30) depending on a result of the comparison and the error detection signal.