Re: Computational power AVR vs. MSP430?

From: John R. Strohm (strohm_at_airmail.net)
Date: 12/24/03


Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:42:41 -0600


"Casey" <cclremovethispart@cox.net> wrote in message
news:YXjGb.10436$JD6.364@lakeread04...
> John R. Strohm said...
> > "Thomas W. Carley" <tcarley@eng.umd.edu> wrote in message
> > >
> > > Think fixed point math rather than floating point. It is MUCH more
> > > efficient.
> >
> > It isn't that simple. Doing fixed point math, you have to worry a lot more
> > about scale factors and where your binary point is at any given instant.
You
> > MAY have to worry about which way an operation will truncate.
>
> True... but we get paid to worry about such things.

Not enough.



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