Re: [oc] Re: MP3 decode core.

[Richard Herveille <richard@asics.ws>]

>Hi,
>As far as I know (I saw the demonstration), Altera has an MP3 decoder core
>for its Excalibur Kit (for APEX20KE devices).
>But I do not know if it is public.

No it is not. It's a demonstration kit for they NIOS soft-core RISC processor.

>Regards,
>Servan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rudolf Usselmann" <rudi@asics.ws>
>To: <cores@opencores.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 6:16 AM
>Subject: Re: [oc] Re: MP3 decode core.
>
>
> > on 6/4/01 7:49, ZhangMutong at zhangmt@cidc.com.cn wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > As far as I know, MP3 decoder always has an embeded DSP core and a
> > > set of program, rather than a pure IP core.
> > > Cuter
> >
> > I thought MP3 is copyrighted or something like that ?
> >
> > There was an open compression that a group was working on,
> > wouldn't that be better ?
> >
> >
> > Cheers !
> > --
> > rudi
> >
> >