Company Information
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ECC Technologies, Inc. (ECC Tek) was incorporated in October 1990 to provide ECC (error correction coding) technology to storage and communications industries worldwide. The company is located in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
ECC Tek licenses ECC hardware and software designs to correct errors in conventional storage devices such as hard disk drives and wireless communications channels and also ultra high-performance ECC hardware designs needed for on‑the‑fly correction of hardware failures to create fault-tolerant systems.
The company has licensed ECC designs to NASA for use in the next-generation space telescope, the lunar reconnaissance orbiter and the solar dynamic observatory. The same designs have been licensed to other companies to create fault-tolerant synchronous DRAM memories for space. The company has licensed programmable Reed-Solomon (RS) designs for use with next-generation wireless communications channels and RS and programmable binary BCH designs for use with NAND Flash.
ECC Tek invented and patented methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding Reed-Solomon codes in a parallel and pipelined fashion.
The company's founder, Mr. Philip E. White, has extensive experience in successfully applying advanced coding theory concepts to the design of data storage and transmission products. He has consulted with or received instruction from key authorities in the world on the subject including Dr. Elwyn Berlekamp, Dr. Robert McEliece, Dr. R.T. Chien, Dr. Edward Weldon and Mr. Neal Glover. He is an experienced electronics design engineer, having worked in the research, advanced concepts and product development divisions of Control Data, Seagate, Unisys and Ciprico. He was the first person in the disk industry to implement a powerful Reed-Solomon error correcting code in a disk controller.
Contact Information
ECC Technologies, Inc.
4750 Coventry Road East
Minnetonka, MN 55345-3909
Phone (952)935-2885
Fax (952)935-2491