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The Emotion Engine (EE) is a powerful 128-bit RISC VLIW processor, made in a few versions, based on the MIPS R5900 (MIPS IV-subset), and jointly designed with Toshiba and Sony. Mass production began in 1999. Its main use is in Sony PlayStation 2 video game consoles, of which over 100 million have been sold, making EE a surprisingly common platform. The identity of the EE and the PS2 are closely ... [MORE]
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Chris' Emotion Engine Page
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Technical tables, graphs. By Christian Klingner, who served and internship, and wrote a master's thesis, in Toshiba's advanced processor lab, on the Emotion Engine, and worked for Toshiba in Silicon Valley on same.
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Emotion Engine
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MIPS R5900 variant, 128-bit VLIW. Growing entry, with links to many related topics. [NodeWorks Encyclopedia]
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Hardware: Consoles: PlayStation 2 System
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Short technical description. [Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.]
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Microprocessor Report Names the Sony/Toshiba Emotion Engine Best Embedded Processor of the Year
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Press release. [Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.]
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PlayStation Turns Supercomputer
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US researchers make supercomputer out of cluster of PS2 game consoles, which use Emotion Engine 128-bit VLIW processors. [BBC News]
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Scientific Computing on the Sony PlayStation 2
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Uses Emotion Engine VLIW processor; descriptions, instructions, news, links.
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Sound and Vision: A Technical Overview of the Emotion Engine
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Multipart analysis with text, diagrams; 128-bit VLIW combination CPU and DSP. [Ars Technica]
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The Sony Emotion Engine: Will PlayStation 2 Replace Your PC?
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New game console offering giga-computing power is the talk of microprocessor conference. [CNN]
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