Merge pull request #289 from SpiNNakerManchester/t_fec #694

Job	Run time
call / tests (windows-latest, 3.12, tests)	2m 14s
call / tests (windows-2019, 3.9, tests)	2m 29s
call / checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.13)	1m 44s
call / tests (macos-latest, 3.13, tests)	51s
call / checks (ubuntu-24.04, 3.11)	1m 36s
call / tests (macos-13, 3.9, tests)	1m 19s
call / checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	1m 36s
call / checks (ubuntu-22.04, 3.9)	1m 27s
call / validate (ubuntu-latest, 3.12, validate)	2m 17s
call / checks (ubuntu-20.04, 3.8)	1m 49s
	17m 22s

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