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Floating Point Systems — Inc. (FPS) was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad.The original goal of the company was to supply floating point coprocessors for minicomputers. In 1976,… … Wikipedia
Processor — may refer to:* Central processing unit (CPU), the part of a computer that interprets instructions * Microprocessor, a CPU on one chip as part of a microcomputer * Graphics processing unit (GPU / VPU), a dedicated graphics rendering device for a… … Wikipedia
Floating Point Processor — [Abk. FPP, dt. Gleitkommaprozessor], Prozessor … Universal-Lexikon
Processor register — In computer architecture, a processor register is a small amount of storage available as part of a CPU or other digital processor. Such registers are (typically) addressed by mechanisms other than main memory and can be accessed more quickly.… … Wikipedia
Floating-point unit — An Intel 80287 A floating point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication,… … Wikipedia
Floating point unit — A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. Some systems (particularly… … Wikipedia
floating-point processor — A specialpurpose, secondary processor designed to perform floating point calculations much faster than the main processor. Many processors, such as the Intel 80386, had matched companion floating point processors. However, the current trend in … Dictionary of networking
floating-point unit — noun A microprocessor that performs floating point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all. See Also: central processing unit, execution… … Wiktionary
Digital signal processor — A Digital Signal Processor chip found in a guitar effects unit. A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor with an architecture optimized for the fast operational needs of digital signal processing.[1] … Wikipedia
Rock (processor) — Infobox Computer Hardware Cpu name = Rock produced start = produced end = slowest = 2.3 | slow unit = GHz fastest = arch = SPARC V9 numcores = 16Rock is a multithreading, multicore, SPARC family microprocessor currently in development at Sun… … Wikipedia
