The EP7312-90 is one of the world's fastest ARM-7 embedded processors today--with clock speeds of up to 90 MHz, it allows for real-time MP3 encoding, as well as decoding for all major digital music standards. The EP7312-90 also supports WMA, MP3, and AAC playback. With faster than real-time MP3 encoding capability, the need for a personal computer to create digital audio content is eliminated. Now, manufacturers can easily build portable rotating media and flash-based audio players that record and store CD/MP3 data during playback--more than ten hours of music content to be stored on a single CD-RW disc. The EP7312-90 delivers high performance with low power, permitting advanced user interfaces and operating systems in battery powered entertainment devices. A digital audio interface (DAI) provides a glueless connection to today's most popular DACs and ADCs, enabling scalable audio performance and price points. It also includes our patent-pending MaverickKeyTM technology, which provides consumer Internet product manufacturers with on-chip security utilizing specific hardware IDs, such as those assigned for DRM or other authentication mechanisms. Design in the EP7312-90 for a wide range of consumer entertainment products, including portable and set-top digital audio devices, car audio jukebox systems, as well as general-purpose controller applications.