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FPU
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FPU

(Floating Point Unit) A computer circuit that handles floating point operations. See floating point.


FPU - floating-point unit


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This volume contains all the papers presented at the June 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic as well as abstracts from the keynote talk given by William Kahan and from the panel sessions on "Pain Versus Gain in the Hardware Design of FPUs and Supercomputers on a Chip" and "A Programmer's View of Computer Arithmetic and Standardization.
Sun says it can't fit more than six floating point units on an Elite card; the m6 having six FPUs.
The FPUs in each CPU core operate at up to 533MHz and support both single-precision and double-precision arithmetic operations.
 
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