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The Emotion Engine is the name of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) used in Sony PlayStation 2 video game consoles. It was jointly designed by Toshiba and Sony and began mass production in 1999. According to MicroDesign Resources, it is two times faster than a 733 MHz Pentium III and 15 times faster than a 400 MHz Celeron at handling tasks like full-motion video. Despite the name and Sony's initial marketing of the PlayStation 2, this processor is not specifically designed to render realistic "emotions" for game characters. Download high resolution version (660x660, 31 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (660x660, 31 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... CPU redirects here; for other uses, see CPU (disambiguation). ... Sony Corporation ) is Japanese multinational corporation and one of the leading manufacturers of video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: ãƒ—ãƒ¬ã‚¤ã‚¹ãƒ†ãƒ¼ã‚·ãƒ§ãƒ³2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... A video game console is a dedicated electronic machine designed to play video games. ... Toshiba Corporation (æ±èŠ, TÅshiba) (TYO: 6502) is a Japanese high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... Mass production is the production of large amounts of standardised products on production lines. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Pentium III logo The Pentium III is an x86 (more precisely, an i686) architecture microprocessor by Intel, introduced on February 26, 1999. ... Celeron D logo as of 2006. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: ãƒ—ãƒ¬ã‚¤ã‚¹ãƒ†ãƒ¼ã‚·ãƒ§ãƒ³2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ...

The Emotion Engine's data bus, cache memory as well as all registers are implemented in 128 bit technology, integrated on a single 0.18 micrometer process technology chip (making it the first commercial 128 bit CPU). The Emotion Engine, based on the MIPS R5900, is sort of a combination CPU and DSP processor, whose main function is simulating 3D worlds. It integrated all necessary units on the die: The MIPS III CPU core, 2 vector units, FPU, image processing unit (basically an MPEG2 decoder with some other capabilities), 10-channel DMA controller, graphics interface unit, RDRAM and I/O interfaces, all connected via a shared 128-bit internal bus. In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers. ... This article is about the computer term. ... In computer architecture, a processor register is a small amount of very fast computer memory used to speed the execution of computer programs by providing quick access to commonly used values—typically, the values being in the midst of a calculation at a given point in time. ... A micrometre (American spelling: micrometer), symbol µm, is an SI unit of length. ... MIPS Technologies, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of pioneering RISC CPUs. ... CPU redirects here; for other uses, see CPU (disambiguation). ... A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A MIPS R4400 microprocessor made by Toshiba MIPS, for Microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages, is a RISC microprocessor architecture developed by MIPS Computer Systems Inc. ... Steam Locomotive 7646 as a vector, originally Windows Metafile (converted to GIF for display here). ... A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a CPU specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. ... MP2, also known as Musicam, is a short form of MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (not MPEG-2), and it is also used as a file extension for files containing audio data of this type. ... Direct memory access (DMA) allows certain hardware subsystems within a computer to access system memory for reading and/or writing independently of the CPU. Many hardware systems use DMA including disk drive controllers, graphics cards, network cards, and sound cards. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article is about the computer interface. ... In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers. ...

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CPU core: 128-bit RISC (MIPS IV-subset)
Clock Frequency: 294 MHz (299 MHz in later versions)
Gate width: 0.18 µm
VDD Voltage: 1.8 V
Power consumption: 15 W
Metal layers: 4
Total transistors: 10.5 million
Die size: 240 mm²
Package: 540 pin PBGA
Integer Unit: 64-bit (2-way Superscalar)
Multimedia extended instructions: 107 instructions at 128 bit width
Integer General Purpose Register: 32 at 128 bit width
TLB: 48 double entries
Instruction Cache: 16 KB (2 way)
Data Cache: 8 KB (2 way)
Scratch pad RAM: 16 KB (Dual port)
Main Memory: 32 MB (Direct RDRAM 2 channels at 800 MHz)
Memory bandwidth: 3.2 GB/s
DMA: 10 channels
Co-processor 1: FPU (FMAC x 1, FDIV x 1)
Co-processor 2: VU0 (FMAC x 4, FDIV x 1)
Vector Processing Unit: VU1 (FMAC x 5, FDIV x 2)
Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS
Curved Surface Generation (Bezier): 16 million polygons per second
Image Processing Unit: MPEG2 Macroblock Layer Decoder
Image Processing Performance: 150 million pixels per second

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Perspective Transformation: 66 million polygons per second
Lighting: 38 million polygons per second
Fog: 36 million polygons per second

Table of Perspective, 1728 Cyclopaedia Figure 1, with rays of light travelling from the viewers eye, through the picture plane, and to the object, is the basis for graphical perspective. ... In mathematics, a transformation in elementary terms is any of a variety of different operations from geometry, such as rotations, reflections and translations. ... Lighting refers to either artificial light sources such as lamps or to natural illumination of interiors from daylight. ... Sunlight filters through a thin layer of fog on a crisp winter morning in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...

External links

Sound and Vision: A Technical Overview of the Emotion Engine
The PlayStation2 vs. the PC: a system-level comparison of two 3D platforms
Scientific Computing on the Sony PlayStation 2
BBC article: PlayStation turns supercomputer

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