Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Arcsoft Corporation Limited

Jun Ying

Alan Gatherer

Hao Luan

Yan Bei

Keming Mu

Xiangfeng Jiao

Disclosed herein are a shared memory controller and a method of controlling a shared memory. An embodiment method of controlling a shared memory includes concurrently scanning-in a plurality of read/write commands for respective transactions. Each of the plurality of read/write commands includes respective addresses and respective priorities. Additionally, each of the respective transactions is divisible into at least one beat and at least one of the respective transactions is divisible into multiple beats. The method also includes dividing the plurality of read/write commands into respective beat-level read/write commands and concurrently arbitrating the respective beat-level read/write commands according to the respective addresses and the respective priorities. Concurrently arbitrating yields respective sequences of beat-level read/write commands corresponding to the respective addresses. The method further includes concurrently dispatching the respective sequences of beat-level read/write commands to the shared memory, thereby accessing the shared memory.

Shared memory controller and method of using same

For a portable video player to encode MP3 audio, a first digital signal processor (DSP) encodes digital signals from an analog/digital (A/D) converter into MP3 data, and a controller reads the MP3 data into a nonvolatile memory. To decode MP3 or MP2 audio, the controller reads MP3/2 data from the nonvolatile memory into the first DSP, and the first DSP decodes the MP3/2 data into digital signals that are provided to a digital/analog (D/A) converter. For the portable video player to encode a different type of audio, the first DSP is bypassed and a second DSP encodes digital signals from the A/D converter into audio data and writes the audio data into the nonvolatile memory. To decode this different type of audio, the first DSP is bypassed and the second DSP decodes audio data from the nonvolatile memory into digital signals that are provided to the D/A converter.

Multi-standard audio player

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Shanghai, China

Jun Ying