VFPS

VFPs is an acronym that can refer to several technology terms, depending on the context. The two most common meanings are Vector Floating Point units in ARM processors and Visual FoxPro, a former Microsoft development environment.

Vector Floating Point (VFP) refers to hardware floating-point units integrated into ARM CPUs to accelerate floating-point and vector computations. Early implementations appeared in various ARM cores and were extended in subsequent revisions (often labeled VFPv1, VFPv2, and VFPv3). These units provide single-precision and double-precision operations and support SIMD-style instructions for parallel data processing. In modern ARM designs, VFP functionality has sometimes been complemented or superseded by NEON, a broader SIMD engine. VFPs have significantly improved performance for graphics, scientific, and multimedia workloads on mobile and embedded devices, where efficient numeric computation is important and power use is constrained.

Visual FoxPro (VFP) was a data-centric programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft. It combined a FoxPro dialect with a GUI designer, forms, reports, and a SQL-compatible database engine, enabling rapid development of desktop and client-server database applications on Windows. Visual FoxPro enjoyed popularity in the 1990s and early 2000s for business applications, offering strong data handling, reporting, and rapid application development capabilities. Microsoft ended active development and support for Visual FoxPro in the 2010s, and while the product is discontinued, some legacy systems remain in use, with migration or modernization projects undertaken by organizations and developers.

Because VFP is ambiguous, clarifying the domain (ARM architecture versus Visual FoxPro) helps determine the intended meaning.