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Originally Posted by meynaf
This is where we strongly disagree.
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These first versions of Vampire boards do not yet contain an FPU, and so also do not contain the more advanced 128-bit SIMD float instructions (SSE) you probably want. For video decoding you only need integer-based AMMX instructions. Gunnar said these float SIMD instructions would occupy a lot of FPGA space needed for other stuff in these early releases. AMMX in integer form was cheap to implement, however.
When FPU support is added in the future to Vampire boards, I believe we also get these SSE-instructions, but it will take some time. This is off-topic anyway.