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

Mike Frysinger
2015-06-24T02:46:10Z

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 522 bytes --]

On 23 Jun 2015 16:20, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > 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)

i'm looking at adding a general --trace-register option geared towards cpu
registers, so i'll convert msp430 over to that