Words starting with mips

4 letter words starting with mips

• mips — 1.   (unit, benchmark)   Million instructions per second. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. VAX MIPS. 3.   (processor)   Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. 4.   (company)   MIPS Technologies, Inc.
• mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
• mips r2000 — (processor)   The R2000 design came, in about 1987, from the Stanford MIPS project, which stood for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. Like the AMD 29000, the R2000 has no condition code register considering it a potential bottleneck. The program counter can be read like other registers. The CPU includes an MMU that can also control a cache, and the CPU can operate as big-endian or little-endian. There is a FPU, the R2010. Versions include the MIPS R3000 and MIPS R4000.
• mips r2010 — A FPU for the MIPS R2000.
• mips r3000 — A version of the MIPS R2000 with improved cache control.