I worked with Les Kohn at C-Cube Microsystems for a very brief time before he left the company in 2000. While he was there, he had completely redesigned the C-C

I worked with Les Kohn at C-Cube Microsystems for a very brief time before he left the company in 2000. While he was there, he had completely redesigned the C-Cube MPEG-2 encoder architecture. The previous architecture required a giant board (12U VME) with 12 processors to encode an SD (720x480) image. His design only required one chip. The design was based on a microSPARC core with many special processing units (motion estimation, DCT/IDCT processing, etc.) glued on.