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Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

When designers talk about data compression these days, typically they are thinking about highly-evolved lossy compression algorithms for particular media data types: MP-3 for audio, for example, or ...

Many of today's embedded systems are providing more sophisticated solutions to a wide variety of applications and industries. With this increase in sophistication, there is a corresponding increase in ...