Re: what is the "VPU" (in igen/cgen/sim) ?

DJ Delorie
2015-06-23T20:20:09Z

> 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)