Get to know Fpu better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Fpu meaning
Initialism of floating-point unit.
Using Fpu
- The main meaning on this page is: Initialism of floating-point unit.
- In the example corpus, fpu often appears in combinations such as: the fpu, unit fpu, fpu registers.
Context around Fpu
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fpu
- In this selection, "fpu" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, unit, council, slower, registers, stack and houses stand out and add context to how "fpu" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a slower fpu however which and a software fpu emulator is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fpu" sits close to words such as aarhus, abdu and abetted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fpu
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
SSE discarded all legacy connections to the FPU stack. (9 words)
Since the early 1990s, many microprocessors for desktops and servers have more than one FPU. (15 words)
The FPU houses Horizon Europe’s National Contact Points (NCPs), which cover all the areas of the programme. (18 words)
Although the work of soldiers under FPU has been commended by a section of stakeholders in the sector, many politicians and fishermen have criticised them over their high-handedness in dealing with people suspected of engaging in illegal fishing. (39 words)
Given that the MMX's 64-bit MMn registers are aliased to the FPU stack and each of the floating point registers are 80 bits wide, the upper 16 bits of the floating point registers are unused in MMX. (39 words)
The 6x86 was also affected by a few minor compatibility problems, the Nx586 lacked a floating point unit (FPU) and (the then crucial) pin-compatibility, while the K5 had somewhat disappointing performance when it was (eventually) introduced. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The advantage of aliasing the FPU registers is that the same instruction and data structures used to save the state of the FPU registers can also be used to save 3DNow! register states.
The FPU houses Horizon Europe’s National Contact Points (NCPs), which cover all the areas of the programme.
They do receive some funding from the Slovak Arts Council (FPU), but it is insufficient and only covers events, not operational costs.
Although the work of soldiers under FPU has been commended by a section of stakeholders in the sector, many politicians and fishermen have criticised them over their high-handedness in dealing with people suspected of engaging in illegal fishing.
Dozens of armed police personnel were positioned at the precinct of the commission while three Formed Police Unit (FPU) vehicles and other police pick-ups were parked at the entrance.
Soldiers under the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) of Uganda People's Defence Forces have vowed not to withdraw from various lakes as directed by Parliament until they get a final order from President Museveni.
The suit was instituted against the Attorney General, Lt Col James Nuwagaba, and the commanders of Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU), Capt Wilson Kandiho, and Lt Julius Ankunda.
They argued that AMD’s combination did not amount to eight cores as they shared resources, including front-end circuitry and a single floating point unit (FPU).
FPU then switched plans, looking to bury the pipeline aong Jefferson Avenue and Salters Lake Road within an estimated two week time frame.
Although its FPU performance fit scientific users quite well, its limited integer performance and high cost dampened appeal for most users, and the R8000 was in the marketplace for only a year and remains fairly rare.
For example, the highly anticipated first person shooter Quake used highly optimized assembly code designed almost entirely around the P5 Pentium's FPU.
Given that the MMX's 64-bit MMn registers are aliased to the FPU stack and each of the floating point registers are 80 bits wide, the upper 16 bits of the floating point registers are unused in MMX.
In this configuration the FPU would operate asynchronously to the CPU, usually with a clock rate of 10 MHz.
It had a slower FPU however, which is slightly ironic as Cyrix started out as a designer of fast Floating point units for x86 processors.
MMX could not be used simultaneously with the x87 FPU instructions because the registers were reused (to allow for fast context switches).
Since the early 1990s, many microprocessors for desktops and servers have more than one FPU.
Some mask revisions of the 68LC040 contained a bug that prevents the chip from operating correctly when a software FPU emulator is used.
SSE discarded all legacy connections to the FPU stack.
The 6x86 was also affected by a few minor compatibility problems, the Nx586 lacked a floating point unit (FPU) and (the then crucial) pin-compatibility, while the K5 had somewhat disappointing performance when it was (eventually) introduced.
The Intel P5 Pentium had two superscalar ALUs which could accept one instruction per clock cycle each, but its FPU could not accept one instruction per clock cycle.
Common combinations with fpu
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fpu 10×
- unit fpu 7×
- fpu registers 5×
- an fpu 4×
- its fpu 2×
- fpu stack 2×
- fpu is 2×
- or fpu 2×
- fpu could 2×
- fpu nor 2×