This document provides an overview of cyclic codes including:
- What cyclic codes are and their properties of error detection and correction.
- The method of generating cyclic codes by multiplying message polynomials by a generator polynomial.
- How to systematically encode cyclic codes in three steps.
- The encoding and decoding circuits including Meggitt decoder.
- An example of a (7,3) cyclic code implemented in Matlab showing the encoding, corruption with errors, and decoding.
- How cyclic codes can detect errors through syndrome computation and lookup tables.
- Applications of cyclic codes in message identification.