FCS

Abbreviation for Frame check sequence. An error-detection scheme that (a) uses parity bits generated by polynomial Encoding of Digital signals, (b) appends those parity bits to a digital signal, and (c) uses Decoding algorithms that detect errors in the received digital signal.

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