Cyclic redundancy codes (CRC) are a type of checksum commonly used to detect errors in data transmission. For instance, every Ethernet packet that brought you the web page you’re reading now carried ...
A few days ago I posed a question from a reader who was having problems understanding CRC-7 for the SD Card. Well, another reader came through magnificently as follows: Hi Max, I searched Yahoo for ...
You send a file, but how do you know it arrived intact? In other words, how do you know that it didn’t get cut off, garbled, or changed somehow? Simplistically, you could just add up all the bytes in ...