Designing with a 1-chip MPEG encoder

Until recently, the high system cost of MPEG encoding limited it to the pro fessional and high-end consumer market. The introduction of the first singl e chip MPEG encoder, the MB86390, has now opened MPEG to a wide area of app lications, where the combination of digital video compression and high syst em integration combined with low cost is required. This feature sets the ne w scene with a discussion of the MPEG standard and moves on to system desig n examples and considerations.