Abstract: A media processing system is provided including a DRAM that includes a plurality of storage locations for storing digital data being processed by said media processing system, said digital data including video data that is compressed in a standardized format, a system for processing said digital data that includes said standardized format compressed video data to produce compressed video images and image data, a system for decoding said standardized format compressed video images to generate full motion video pixel data, a system for sharing said DRAM between said processing means and said decoding means, and a system for producing a full motion video signal from said full motion video pixel data. The media processing system may also have a system for multiplying or combining a first pixel by a second pixel in a single clock cycle.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a multi-processing unit system including a plurality of processing units in direct communication via a communication bus is presented. The system includes a communication bus arbiter having a communication packet multiplexer. Each of the processing units include a communication bus interface comprising a transmitter interface and a receiver interface. Each of the transmitter interfaces are connected to the communication packet multiplexer of the communication bus arbiter via separate 32-bit interfaces. Each of the receiver interfaces is connected to the communication packet multiplexer of the communication bus arbiter via a single 32-bit bus. The system may further comprise a first control signal connection means for communicating control signals between the transmitter interface and the communication bus arbiter and a second control signal connection means for communicating control signal between the receiver interface and the communication bus arbiter.

Abstract: A system and method for compressing and decompressing variable length instructions contained in variable length instruction packets in a processor having a plurality of processing units is provided that has a compression system with a system for generating an instruction packet containing a plurality of instructions, a system for assigning a compressed instruction having a predetermined length to an instruction within the instruction packet, a shorter compressed instruction corresponding to a more frequently used instruction, and a system for generating an instruction packet containing compressed instructions for corresponding ones of said processing units.