Students:	Kire Filipovski Mike Schwankl
Advisors:	Dr. Joseph Kozikowski Dr. Rick Perry

The expansion of Internet in the past few years has influenced the growth of multimedia applications in data networks. The need for compression of the audio and video information is inevitable because of the high bandwidth requirements. The compression algorithm used is the ISO MPEG layer-2 audio. Since the algorithm needs several milion instructions per second to decode in real-time, our design uses an application dedicated DSP chip to take the load off of the CPU and make it available for other jobs. The module interfaces with a PC and is suitable for numerous network applications with low bandwith requirements, as well as applications with limited storage resources.