Genesis Microchip Corporation

Vm Labs, Inc.

Eric R Smith

John George Mathieson

Louis A Cardillo

Richard Miller

Richard G Miller

A media processing system is provided including a DRAM that includes a plurality of storage locations for storing digital data being processed by said media processing system, said digital data including video data that is compressed in a standardized format, a system for processing said digital data that includes said standardized format compressed video data to produce compressed video images and image data, a system for decoding said standardized format compressed video images to generate full motion video pixel data, a system for sharing said DRAM between said processing means and said decoding means, and a system for producing a full motion video signal from said full motion video pixel data. The media processing system may also have a system for multiplying or combining a first pixel by a second pixel in a single clock cycle. The media processing system may have a plurality of processing elements connected together in parallel, a system for controlling said processing elements with instruction words that have a predetermined number of instructions, and a system for distributing data simultaneously to each of said processing elements.

Systems and methods for efficient processing of multimedia data

A system and method for compressing and decompressing variable length instructions contained in variable length instruction packets in a processor having a plurality of processing units is provided that has a compression system with a system for generating an instruction packet containing a plurality of instructions, a system for assigning a compressed instruction having a predetermined length to an instruction within the instruction packet, a shorter compressed instruction corresponding to a more frequently used instruction, and a system for generating an instruction packet containing compressed instructions for corresponding ones of said processing units. The decompression system has a system for storing a plurality of said instruction packets in a plurality of storage locations, a system for generating an address that points to a selected variable length instruction packet in the storage system, and a decompression system that decompresses said compressed instructions in said selected instruction packet to generate a variable length instruction for each of said processing units. The decompression system may also have a system for routing said variable length instructions from the decompression system to each of said processing units.

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Eric R Smith