Hey everyone, I am a brand new member and thought I could learn and get some help at the same time. I have an assignment that implements SECDED on a 16 bit word, storing the 5 checked bits and 1 parity bit in the upper 6 bits (makes a 22-bit word). Something is definitely not working and I'm a bit confused. Can someone take a look and point me in the right direction? Thanks.

#include <stdio.h>
#include "mem.h"
#include "secded.h"

/*
  secded_store - called by the system to store a word (16-bits) of data.
  Before storing the data in the error-prone memory using store, the 
  function should add check-bits and a parity bit for Single Error
  Correction, Double Error Detection (SECDED). 

  The function store() will take a 22-bit value (since it takes an unsigned
  long (32-bits), the high 10 bits will be cleared.
*/

void secded_store (unsigned long address, unsigned short data) {
    unsigned long data_and_checkbits;
    unsigned short lower;
    unsigned int D[17],i, c1, c2, c4, c8, c16, parity, part1, part2;
    
    lower = data & 0xffff;

    // Compute the data bits
    for (i=1;i<=16;i++) {
	D[i] = (lower >> i) & 1;
    }

    // Compute the checked and parity bits
    c1 = D[1] ^ D[3] ^ D[5] ^ D[7] ^ D[9] ^ D[11] ^ D[13] ^ D[15];
    c2 = D[2] ^ D[3] ^ D[6] ^ D[7] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    c4 = D[4] ^D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[7] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    c8 = D[8] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    c16 = D[16];
    part1 = D[1] ^ D[2] ^ D[3] ^ D[4] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[7] ^ D[8];
    part2 = D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15] ^ D[16];
    parity = part1 ^ part2;
    
    // Stores the checked and parity bits it the upper 6-bits of the data
    unsigned long upper = lower | c1 << 16;
    upper = upper | c2 << 17;
    upper = upper | c4 << 18;
    upper = upper | c8 << 19;
    upper = upper | c16 << 20;
    data_and_checkbits = upper | parity << 21;
 
    store(address, data_and_checkbits);
}

/*
  secded_load - called by the system to load a word (16-bits) of data.
  After loading the data from the error-prone memory using load(), the
  function should verify the validity of the data using the check-bits and
  parity bit.

  The function should return the data in the location pointed to by
  data. The function should return 1 if there was an uncorrectable error
  that was detected. It should return 0 if there were no errors or if the
  errors were corrected.
*/

bool secded_load (unsigned long address, unsigned short& data) {
    unsigned long unchecked_data;
    unsigned int syndrome[5], c1, c2, c4, c8, c16, parity, part1, part2, pos;
    unsigned int s_c1, s_c2, s_c4, s_c8, s_c16, s_parity, s_checkbits, checkbits;
    unsigned short lower;
    unchecked_data = load(address);   
    
    // Compute stored parity and checked bits 
    s_parity = (unchecked_data >> 21) & 1;
    s_c16 = (unchecked_data >> 20) & 1;
    s_c8 = (unchecked_data >> 19) & 1;
    s_c4 = (unchecked_data >> 18) & 1;
    s_c2 = (unchecked_data >> 17) & 1;
    s_c1 = (unchecked_data >> 16) & 1;  
    unsigned int D[17],i;
    
    lower = data & 0xffff;
    // Compute the bits of data 
    for (i=1;i<=16;i++) {
	D[i] = (lower >> i) & 1;
    }

    // Compute the checked and parity bits
    c1 = D[1] ^ D[3]  ^ D[5] ^ D[7] ^ D[9] ^ D[11] ^ D[13] ^ D[15];
    c2 = D[2] ^ D[3] ^ D[6] ^ D[7] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    c4 = D[4] ^D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[7] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    c8 = D[8] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    c16 = D[16];
    part1 = D[1] ^ D[2] ^ D[3] ^ D[4] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[7] ^ D[8];
    part2 = D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15] ^ D[16];
    parity = part1 ^ part2;
 
    s_checkbits = s_c1 ^ s_c2 ^ s_c4 ^ s_c8 ^ s_c16;
    checkbits = c1 ^ c2 ^ c4 ^ c8 ^c16;

    // Compute syndrome word
    syndrome[0] = c1 ^ s_c1;
    syndrome[1] = c2 ^ s_c2;
    syndrome[2] = c4 ^ s_c4;
    syndrome[3] = c8 ^ s_c8;
    syndrome[4] = c16 ^ s_c16;
    
    // Computes the position of the flipped bit
    pos = 0;
    if (syndrome[0] == 1){
	pos++;
    }else if (syndrome[1] == 1) {
	pos+=2;
    }else if (syndrome[2] == 1) {
	pos+=4;
    }else if (syndrome[3] == 1) {
	pos+=8;
    }else if (syndrome[4] == 1) {
	pos+=16;
    }

    // No error
    if ((s_parity == parity) && (s_checkbits == checkbits)){
	data = unchecked_data;
	return true;
    }       
    // Single-bit error
	if ((s_parity == parity) && (s_checkbits != checkbits)) {
	data = unchecked_data ^ (1 << (pos-1));  // Go to bit with error and toggle it
	return true;
    }
    // Parity bit is flipped
    if ((s_parity != parity) && (s_checkbits == checkbits)) {
	data = unchecked_data ^ (1 << 20);     // Toggle the parity bit
	return true;
    }
    // Two-bit error
    if ((s_parity != parity) && (s_checkbits != checkbits)) {
     	return false;
    }	    
}

Just want to keep everyone updated, so here is my code now, but still not getting the results I want:

#include <stdio.h>
#include "mem.h"
#include "secded.h"

/*
  secded_store - called by the system to store a word (16-bits) of data.
  Before storing the data in the error-prone memory using store, the 
  function should add check-bits and a parity bit for Single Error
  Correction, Double Error Detection (SECDED). 

  The function store() will take a 22-bit value (since it takes an unsigned
  long (32-bits), the high 10 bits will be cleared.
*/

void secded_store (unsigned long address, unsigned short data) {
    unsigned long data_and_checkbits;
    unsigned short lower;
    unsigned int D[17],i, c1, c2, c4, c8, c16, parity, part1, part2;
    
    lower = data & 0xffff;

    // Compute the data bits
    for (i=0;i<16;i++) {
	D[i] = (lower >> i) & 1;
    }

    // Compute the checked and parity bits

    // Computes bit position xxxx1
    c1 = D[0] ^ D[2] ^ D[4] ^ D[6] ^ D[8] ^ D[10] ^ D[12] ^ D[14]; 
    // Computes bit position xxx1x
    c2 = D[1] ^ D[2] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[13] ^ D[14]; 
    // Computes bit postion xx1xx
    c4 = D[3] ^ D[4] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14];
    // Computes bit position x1xxx
    c8 = D[7] ^ D[8] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14];  
    // Computes bit position 1xxxx
    c16 = D[15];  
    // Computes bits 0 - 15
    part1 = D[0] ^ D[1] ^ D[2] ^ D[3] ^ D[4] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[7];
    part2 = D[8] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    parity = part1 ^ part2; 

    // Stores the checked and parity bits it the upper 6-bits of the data
    unsigned long upper = lower | c1 << 15;
    upper = upper | c2 << 16;
    upper = upper | c4 << 17;
    upper = upper | c8 << 18;
    upper = upper | c16 << 19;
    data_and_checkbits = upper | parity << 20;
    
    store(address, data_and_checkbits);
}

/*
  secded_load - called by the system to load a word (16-bits) of data.
  After loading the data from the error-prone memory using load(), the
  function should verify the validity of the data using the check-bits and
  parity bit.

  The function should return the data in the location pointed to by
  data. The function should return 1 if there was an uncorrectable error
  that was detected. It should return 0 if there were no errors or if the
  errors were corrected.
*/

bool secded_load (unsigned long address, unsigned short& data) {
    unsigned long unchecked_data;
    unsigned int syndrome[5], c1, c2, c4, c8, c16, parity, part1, part2, pos;
    unsigned int s_c1, s_c2, s_c4, s_c8, s_c16, s_parity, s_checkbits, checkbits;
    
    unchecked_data = load(address);   
    
    // Compute stored parity and checked bits 
    s_parity = (unchecked_data >> 20) & 1;
    s_c16 = (unchecked_data >> 19) & 1;
    s_c8 = (unchecked_data >> 18) & 1;
    s_c4 = (unchecked_data >> 17) & 1;
    s_c2 = (unchecked_data >> 16) & 1;
    s_c1 = (unchecked_data >> 15) & 1;  

    unsigned int D[17],i;
    unsigned short lower = unchecked_data & 0xffff;
    // Compute the data bits
    for (i=0;i<16;i++) {
	D[i] = (lower >> i) & 1;
    }

    // Compute the checked and parity bits

    // Computes bit position xxxx1
    c1 = D[0] ^ D[2] ^ D[4] ^ D[6] ^ D[8] ^ D[10] ^ D[12] ^ D[14]; 
    // Computes bit position xxx1x
    c2 = D[1] ^ D[2] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[13] ^ D[14]; 
    // Computes bit postion xx1xx
    c4 = D[3] ^ D[4] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14];
    // Computes bit position x1xxx
    c8 = D[7] ^ D[8] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14];  
    // Computes bit position 1xxxx
    c16 = D[15];  
    // Computes bits 0 - 15
    part1 = D[0] ^ D[1] ^ D[2] ^ D[3] ^ D[4] ^ D[5] ^ D[6] ^ D[7];
    part2 = D[8] ^ D[9] ^ D[10] ^ D[11] ^ D[12] ^ D[13] ^ D[14] ^ D[15];
    parity = part1 ^ part2;   

    s_checkbits = s_c1 ^ s_c2 ^ s_c4 ^ s_c8 ^ s_c16;
    checkbits = c1 ^ c2 ^ c4 ^ c8 ^c16;
    
    // Compute syndrome word
    syndrome[0] = c1 ^ s_c1;
    syndrome[1] = c2 ^ s_c2;
    syndrome[2] = c4 ^ s_c4;
    syndrome[3] = c8 ^ s_c8;
    syndrome[4] = c16 ^ s_c16;
    
    // Computes the position of the flipped bit
    pos = 0;
    if (syndrome[0] == 1){
	pos++;
    }else if (syndrome[1] == 1) {
	pos+=2;
    }else if (syndrome[2] == 1) {
	pos+=4;
    }else if (syndrome[3] == 1) {
	pos+=8;
    }else if (syndrome[4] == 1) {
	pos+=16;
    }

    // No error
    if ((s_parity == parity) && (s_checkbits == checkbits)){
	data = unchecked_data;
	return true;
    }       
    // Single-bit error
    if ((s_parity == parity) && (s_checkbits != checkbits)) {
	data = unchecked_data ^ (1 << (pos-1));  // Go to bit with error and toggle it
	return true;
    }
    // Parity bit is flipped
    if ((s_parity != parity) && (s_checkbits == checkbits)) {
	data = unchecked_data ^ (1 << 20);     // Toggle the parity bit
	return true;
    }
    // Two-bit error
    if ((s_parity != parity) && (s_checkbits != checkbits)) {
     	return false;
    }	    
}
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