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created: 05/31/2002; revised: 11/16/2002; 11/23/2014


CHAPTER 32 — Floating Point Comparison Instructions

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. Several FPA instructions affect this bit and several CPU instructions test this bit.

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QUESTION 1:

Are the FPA (floating point accelerator) and coprocessor 1 the same?