registers. In some applications, such as networking, a few control bits are added to the data
to facilitate their processing. For example, flags to mark the start or the end of a packet are
widely used. Therefore, it is important to have SEC codes that protect both the data and the
associated control bits. It is attractive for these codes to provide fast decoding of the control
bits, as these are used to determine the processing of the data and are commonly on the …