QUESTION 1:
Are the FPA (floating point accelerator) and coprocessor 1 the same?
created: 05/31/2002; revised: 11/16/2002
The MIPS Floating Point Accelerator (FPA) chip
(now, usually part of the processor chip)
has a condition bit that is set to
0 or 1
to indicate if a condition is false or true.
Serval FPA instructions affect this bit and
several CPU instructions test this bit.
c.eq.s, c.lt.s, c.le.sbc1f, bc1t
Are the FPA (floating point accelerator) and coprocessor 1 the same?