[tremor] Physical implementation of tremor

[Brendan Moran]

>>>External busses are expensive, too.
>>Depends on how much I/O you start with.
>
>It is the actual bus that is expensive, not the amount of
>traffic on it.  Expensive as in "money", and expensive as
>in "Watts" -- expensive as in "slow" is no real concern for
>this kind of devices (the bus is certainly not slow compared
>to the cpu).

I did realise what you meant.  I was simply refering to the number of I/O 
pins available on most FPGAs (believe me they have a lot).  Now, as to 
expensive in Watts, that is still a problem, but all transitions in a 
semiconductor are expensive in Watts.  If a little I/O saves enough 
processing cycles, it becomes cheaper.

Roughly what is the maximum memory requirement for decoding a Vorbis file 
with Tremor, anyway?

--Brendan

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