[Tremor] Ogg Vorbis on AVR

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Thu Oct 7 19:39:38 PDT 2004




On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:01:55PM -0500, Hugo Gonz?lez Monteverde wrote:
> AVR's are high performance 8 bit microcontrollers. They execute most 
> instructions in a single cycle (up to ~20MHz)  They have up to 128k 
> program memory (flash) and can address up to 64K RAM. It does not seem 
> to have a HW multiplication instruction. This is probably the fastest of 
> all microcontrollers, but it is still a microcontroller.

Ad odd definition of fastest, but that's mostly a semantic argument of
what a microcontroller really is. Regardless, without hardware mult,
these chips don't have a prayer of decoding realtime.

Monty


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