Invisible wrote:
> I'd be surprised if there aren't already off-the-shelf parts you can buy 
> for MPEG4 decoding. Surely there are for MPEG1...

Generally, what you buy is an off-the-shelf core, not an off-the-shelf chip. 
ARM doesn't sell chips as much as they sell cores. Cores are the new ICs.

> Sure. But how often do you need to design new test equipment?

Every time you have a new type of product to test.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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