created: 05/31/2002; revised: 11/16/2002; 11/23/2014
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.
c.eq.s
, c.lt.s
, c.le.s
bc1f
, bc1t
Are the FPA (floating point accelerator) and coprocessor 1 the same?