> Date:         Mon, 21 Aug 1995 07:45:52 -0800
> From: Ross Lyle <LYLE@CAMADM.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>

> There has been a lot of discussion about BCD to Binary recently, but how
> bout the other way.  The "Embedded Control Handbook", page 5-120 has a
> 16 bit to BCD listing but can take up to 885 clock cycles.  Anything more
> efficient out there?  I need only a 10 bit to BCD routine (actually up to
> 999 ).

> Ross Lyle
> Victoria, BC         <--- hey, that's where my sisters live!

Well, I did a binary to bcd routine that handled up to 512.  You could
modify it to do 1024 without too much trouble, I suppose.  I used the
fact that x / 100 = (x/2) / 50, much like the BCD->binary routines.

Using (x/4) / 25 to generate the hundreds digit will allow eight bit
subtractive calculation.  Then you calculate (x/4 mod 25) * 4 + (x mod 4 )
and count the tens, leaving the ones.  I wasn't concerned about time
of execution, a millisecond wasn't a problem for me.  I was concerned
about RAM/ROM usage.

But I don't have the code handy.

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