[Libre-soc-dev] daily kan-ban update 20aug2020

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 07:35:00PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 7:25 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > my assumption has been video processing unit, since we're adding
> > > instructions to accelerate video decode (and maybe encode too).
> > 
> > yep VPU.  we're including audio in that as well, because lauri pointed
> > out that audio processing can be really quite CPU-intensive.
> 
> So how does our VPU differ from a GPU ?

Maybe in having hardware to decode common video compression formats?
In our case, perhaps instructions that would be useful for that?

-- hendrik


> 
> [[ I'm feeling better that a glossary is really useful ]]
> 
> Below is my glossary entry for GPU:
> 
> \newglossaryentry{GPU}                                                                                                
> {                                                                                                                     
>   name=GPU,                                                                                                            
>   description={                                                                                                       
>     Graphics processing unit.                                                                                         
>     Special purpose processor optimised for graphics and image generation,                                            
>     often able to run in parallel -- the same instructions on                                                         
>     different data at the same time.                                                                                  
>     Contrast with \gls{CPU} and \gls{VPU}.                                                                            
>     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit}{Wikipedia}                                     
>     }                                                                                                                 
> }
> 
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