The CL4040 had two CL4020 chips in the package. It took four chips to encode 1/2 D1 resolution (352x480), so this was the smallest MPEG-2 encoder possible at the time (1995).
The TMS320 chip was the audio encoder and was only capable of MPEG-1 Layer 2 coding.
The i960 was primarily used for bitstream multiplexing, either Transport Stream or Program Stream. The idea was to offload the host so that you could have many encoders in a cheap PC (with a big power supply).
The TMS320 chip was the audio encoder and was only capable of MPEG-1 Layer 2 coding.
The i960 was primarily used for bitstream multiplexing, either Transport Stream or Program Stream. The idea was to offload the host so that you could have many encoders in a cheap PC (with a big power supply).