V G wrote:
> I thought MP3 decoding was very serial in nature.

I think you're right, but that isn't the issue.  The problem is that MP3
decoding takes a lot of computes, more than a simple PIC can reasonably do
in real time.

Serial algorithms also lend themselves well to hardware implementation
because you can set up a pipeline.  Each block in the pipeline is working o=
n
successive data, but they are all working simultaneously, something a singl=
e
CPU can't do.  A pipeline increases latency, but in the case of decoding a
MP3 stream a small delay is of no consequence as long as the overall rate
can be sustained.


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