[vorbis] Vorbis decoding in hardware

[Segher Boessenkool]

Marco Al wrote:
> 
> From: "Segher Boessenkool" <segher at chello.nl>
> 
> > Nope. No MAC on fixed point hardware ;-)
> 
> Hmm? Plenty of fixed point hardware with MAC units.

Well, that doesn't make sense. MAC needs the temporary multiplication
result and the add to be in double precision. If the cpu can afford that,
it can afford FP as well?

> > Well, I may be wrong; and it's not important, anyway, as no-one
> > in his right mind would make an USB Vorbis decoder ;-)
> 
> Why not? The simple fact that you dont need a large PCB to stuff into an
> internal slot should already give you a considerable cost savings, let alone the
> amount of logic needed to interface with a PCI bus...

For pci, only one very cheap chip is needed.

Cheers,

Segher

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