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Arc lights up handheld video
This is a block diagram (click for larger view) of ARC's new AV 417V video subsystem for handhelds, which uses an ARC 700 central processor controlling a set of specialist modules: two Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) multimedia processor units, hardware-accelerated encode and decode units, a video-optimsed direct memory access engine, and a motion estimator used in compression. Data formats supported are listed on the right.
The four other new chips in the same family, the 407V, 406V,404V,402V and 402V, have only one SIMD processing unit. See here for details.
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