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An MPEG 2 Decoder Multichip Module for Digital TV and Multimedia Applications Cyrus Ghahremani, Dr. Arzu Simsek, Prof. Herbert Reichl Fraunhofer Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 13355 Berlin Tel.: ++49 / 30 / 464 03 - 145 Fax: ++49 / 30 / 464 03 - 111 email: ghahri@izm.fhg.de Introduction The digitization of audiovisual and written information offers the possibility of joining them to one package and transmitting them via the same channel. Now these different kinds of information can be processed on computers and any other common hardware. Furthermore the user can interact with his system and manipulate the information instead of only consuming it. This conveniance means a high datarate to be transmitted and processed. So basing on the standard for teleconferencing H.261 and JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) for images the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) established the standards MPEG 1 and MPEG 2. Especially MPEG 2 addresses different kinds of applications which can be used in portable and stationary systems for computers or in consumer products. As portability and more functionality are the main selling features the systems have to be miniaturized. To meet these demands Multichip Modules (MCM) are a suitable means of designing systems of small size with high functionality. In this paper an MCM for MPEG 2 decoding is presented. Possible Applications In 1994 MPEG published the final version of MPEG 2 „Information Technology - ...