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Emotion Engine Features and General Specifications

CPU Core 128-bit RISC (MIPS IV-subset)
Clock Frequency 300 MHz
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 2ch@800MHz)
Memory Bandwidth 3.2 GB/ sec
DMA 10 channels
Co-processor1 FPU (FMAC x 1, FDIV x 1)
Co-processor2 VU0 (FMAC x 4, FDIV x 1)
  Micro Memory (I:4KB D:4 KB)
Vector Processing Unit VU1 (FMAC x 5, FDIV x 2)
  Micro Memory (I:16KB D:16KB)
   
Floating Point Performance 6.2 GFLOPS
Geometry  
   + Perspective Transformation 66 miliion polygons / sec
   + Lighting 38 million polygons / sec
   + Fog 36 million polygons / sec
Curved Surface Generation (Bezier) 16 million polygons/ sec
Image Processing Unit MPEG2 Macroblock Layer Decoder
Image Processing Performance 150 million pixels / sec
   
Gate Width 0.18 micron
VDD Voltage 1.8 V
Power Consumption 15 watts
Metal Layers 4
Total Transistors 10.5 million
Die Size 240 mm2
Package 540 pin PBGA
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