title: MPU
text: # MPU
  
  MPU may refer to:
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Medical-grade polyurethane, a polyurethane used in medicine; for example see Vas-occlusive contraception
  
  ### Computing
  
  * Memory protection unit, for example in the ARM Cortex-M
  * Microprocessor unit, a central processing unit when referring to digital signal processors
  * MPU-401 (MIDI Processing Unit), an obsolete standard for MIDI interfaces for personal computers
  * Multi-core processing unit, a system made of two or more independent cores; See History of general-purpose CPUs
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Mabua Airstrip (IATA code: MPU), an airport in Papua New Guinea
  * Melbourne Poets Union, a forerunner of Australian Poetry and later reincarnated under the same name
  * Minimum publishable unit, the smallest piece of a scientist's results that can be made into an academic paper
  * Mișcarea Politică Unirea, a Moldovan political party
  * Myanmar Payment Union, a Myanmar financial services corporation
  * Medical-psychological assessment in Germany, called MPU for Medizinisch-Psychologische Untersuchung
  