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An MPEG 2 Decoder Multichip Module for Digital TV and Multimedia Applications
Cyrus Ghahremani, Dr. Arzu Simsek, Prof. Herbert Reichl Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 13355 Berlin Tel.: ++49 / 30 / 464 03 - 145 Fax: ++49 / 30 / 464 03 - 111 email: ghahri@izm.fhg.de Introduction The digitization of audiovisual and written information offers the possibility of joining them to one package and transmitting them via the same channel. Now these different kinds of information can be processed on computers and any other common hardware. Furthermore the user can interact with his system and manipulate the information instead of only consuming it. This conveniance means a high datarate to be transmitted and processed.