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From: matija@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Data compression and storage formats
Summary: Compression algorithms
Keywords: Hareware, data compression, Reed-solomon
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.152143.25570@ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 18 Jun 91 15:21:43 GMT
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In article <6734@uafhp.uark.edu> kcampbel@uafhp.uark.edu (Keith Alan Campbell) writes:
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>As developers of the AD1016 digital audio system for SunRize, we have looked
>at several methods of backing up the enormous data requirements of digital
>audio.
[stuff deleted]
>Does anyone here on
>the net have any ideas concerning the use of standard or non-standard  
>compression schemes (including Reed-Solomon, tar, etc.) that would both
>speed up effective transfer rates

Here at the federal institute of tecnology in Zurich we have a VLSI course,
next fall. During the year I will build an SCSI-to-Centronics chip and another
group will build a Reed-Solomon encoder/decoder. So if you wait approximately
one year (it will be done by march 92) you will have it on chip.

>Don Kennedy
>Vision Quest Systems
Bye
-Matija
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