A PPU-enhanced computer system is provided including a Physics Processing
Unit (PPU), a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a Central Processing Unit
(CPU) and a main memory, wherein the system creates an animation from
application data stored in the main memory by data communication between
the GPU, PPU, CPU and main memory. The system may include a memory
controller and a chip set connecting the bus structure to the CPU and GPU
through an I/O interface and connecting the PPU though a bus structure.
The PPU may be a separate processing core logically grouped with the CPU
and GPU processing cores. In this preferred embodiment, the CPU, GPU and
PPU receive data from a common L2 cache and/or a main system memory.