Task Hamming & SECDED Code

(a) For data, using 3 Hamming code parity bits determine the maximum number of data bits that can be protected.

(b) A SECDED encoded character has been retrieved, with the hexadecimal value of BC6₁₆. You may assume that the SECDED parity is even.

1 Was there an error in transmission? Explain your answer.

2 If there was an error, either correct it (reporting the corrected ASCII character) or explain why it could not be corrected (Show your Hamming/SECDED table).