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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.
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.
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Chris' Emotion Engine Page - 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.
Meta Description: [ The 'Emotion Engine' is the processor of SONY's
next-generation Playstation. Features: 300 MHz Multimedia
2-way superscalar RISC processor, MIPS-IV (subset),
internal and external 128 bit busses, 6.2G FLOPS,
0.18 micron process at 1.8 Volts, 15 Watts,
10.5 Million transistors on a 240... ]
Emotion Engine - MIPS R5900 variant, 128-bit VLIW. Growing entry, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
Hardware: Consoles: PlayStation 2 System - Short technical description. [Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.]
Microprocessor Report Names the Sony/Toshiba Emotion Engine Best Embedded Processor of the Year - Press release. [Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.]
PlayStation Turns Supercomputer - US researchers make supercomputer out of cluster of PS2 game consoles, which use Emotion Engine 128-bit VLIW processors. [BBC News]
Meta Description: [ Researchers in the US have made a supercomputer out of a cluster of PlayStation 2 game consoles. ]
Scientific Computing on the Sony PlayStation 2 - Uses Emotion Engine VLIW processor; descriptions, instructions, news, links.
Sound and Vision: A Technical Overview of the Emotion Engine - Multipart analysis with text, diagrams; 128-bit VLIW combination CPU and DSP. [Ars Technica]
The Sony Emotion Engine: Will PlayStation 2 Replace Your PC? - New game console offering giga-computing power is the talk of microprocessor conference. [CNN]
Meta Description: [ New game console offering giga-computing power is the talk of microprocessor conference. ]
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