Homework 2: Identify individual components

Processor cores:

• microprocessor
• DSP
• microcontroller

Standard interfaces:

• PCI
• Ethernet

Application specific components

• MPEG decoder
• JPEG encoder/decoder

Smaller building blocks?:

• Viterbi, IDCT/DCT, Motion estimation

Where to find them? http://www.mentor.com/inventra/cores/index.html

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