Re: quieries related to math handling in micro controllers

yasha wrote:
hello folks..
I'm doing a project related to 8051 micro controller, it is required to
handle floating point numbers to a great precision. is there any way with which this can be done easily with 8051 or is there
any mathematical controller that can do a better job?
please let me know..


An 8051 is about the most inefficient processor you could think of for doing floating point. But if you are happy with extremely slow performance, then it will do the job - after all, pocket calculators have been made with 4-bit microcontrollers. If you are happy with speeds measured in flops, your 8051 will be fine. If you want speeds in kiloflops, get a proper microcontroller. If you want speeds in megaflops, get a processor with hardware floating point support.

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