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Re: what is the "VPU" (in igen/cgen/sim) ?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org, bje at gnu dot org, dje at google dot com, nickc at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:20:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: what is the "VPU" (in igen/cgen/sim) ?
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> can anyone shed some light on this ?
IIRC: Vector Processing Unit
Part of the emotion engine (a mips variant done in cgen) used in the
Playstation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Engine#Vector_processing_units
(the msp430 uses it because it was available and I couldn't find a
--trace-regs option)