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What does FPU stand for?

Floating Point Unit


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They incorporate an SH2A-FPU CPU core with floating point unit (FPU) hardware that attains high code efficiency and runs application code quickly.
General topics include the decimal floating point (including solving constants on the intermediate results of decimal floating point operations), floating point implementation (including a P6 floating point unit and a new architecture for multiple-precision floating point multiply-add fused unit design), floating point issues and operations, crypto algorithms (including asymmetric squaring formulae and spectral modular exponentiation), elementary functions (including a return to hardware), and modular operations.
In addition, a new floating point unit (FPU) option enables embedded developers to accelerate system performance by as much as 120 times over software emulation.
Via Nano is the first x86 processor from Via Technologies that features 64-bit instruction set along with a superscalar and out of order execution engine, macro-fusion and micro-fusion functionality, advanced branch prediction mechanism, advanced floating point unit as well as support for virtualization technology and Via PadLock security engine.
The SH4-202 CPU core integrates a 32-bit RISC CPU core with an integrated Vector floating point unit and delivers an impressive 1.
Targeted at value-conscious home and office desktop computer users, the new processor features 192KB of total on-chip cache, a high-speed 200MHz front-side bus and a superscalar floating point unit with enhanced 3DNow
The SH72531 has the same SH-2A high-performance 32-bit CPU core with a floating point unit (FPU) as the SH72544R for full software compatibility, and achieves 240 MIPS processing performance at 120MHz.
Employing an innovative design, the Mobile AMD Duron processor features a sophisticated cache architecture with 192KB of total on-chip cache; a high-speed 200MHz front side bus, and a superscalar floating point unit with enhanced 3DNow

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