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Figure 14.14(b) : In addition to the redundancy P on rows, inner redundancy Q is also gener
ated on columns.
On replay, the Q code checker will pass on fl ag F if it fi nds an error too large to handle itself. Flags pass through
the deinterleave process and are used by the outer error correction to identify which symbol in the ro
w needs
correcting with P redundancy. The concept of crossing two codes in this wa
y is called a product code.