Abstract: A method and device for detection and correction of errors in ATM cell headers, wherein it series to parallel converts (2) the serial data stream (1), thereby obtaining a parallel data format of n bits, the clock rate of which is n times lower than the original. From the parallel input data of the ATM header, a syndrome word (3) is generated according to a determined function that indicates that no error has been detected, that more than one error has been detected, or which bit has to be corrected when only one error has been detected. The ATM cell headers are delayed (4) until the syndrome word has been completed, the error correction process (5) then being carried out, when required, in accordance with the syndrome word generated. In addition, an individual indication (7) for external use is generated of the result of the detection and possible correction process made. The device implements the method described.

Abstract: Of the type formed by a pseudorandom code generator and a block that performs the synchronizing and the scrambling in parallel which, in addition to the initialization signal, receives as inputs the set of parallel input data and the codes generated by the code generator, and produces the scrambled parallel data at the outputs; the modulo-2 adders used in the feedback loops of the pseudorandom code generator have only two inputs, and the outputs of the code generator in the parallel working time slots tp and tp+1 are related through the expression:C.sub.tp+1 =T.sup.n (nxn).C.sub.tpsimplifying the result accordingly.