Chapter 1. From Prêt-à-Porter to Tailor-Made
Paolo Ienne and Rainer Leupers
By now, processors are everywhere. Really everywhere. Not only as microcontrollers in our washing machines and microwave ovens. Not only to read the mechanical displacement of our computer mice or to handle the user interfaces of our VHS video recorders. They have been there for decades, but now they are also truly in control of the combustion process in the engine of our cars. They also recreate and postprocess the film frames recorded on our DVDs and displayed by our digital TVs, recompute the audio signals throughout our Hi-Fi equipment, capture the images in our cameras and camcorders, send our voice on the radio waves through our cell phones, and encode and decode ...
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