My main questions are about AppNote 575: IEEE 754 Compliant Floating
Point Routines.

It seems very difficult to caculate the binary represention of a
number.  For instance, how you represent .5 in the "24 bit reduced
format"?  Can someone walk me through the conversion process.  I see
there is appendix A there is an algroithm to do it. But wow, it would
take about 30 minutes to manually do it.  I'm hoping I'm missing
somthing.

After seeing the diffuculty in using floating point on PIC using
appnote 575. I'm wondering if there is a better solution?  I
considered C but Microchip's own C compiler don't work on the 16x
series.  The HITECH-C is too expensive unless you are in a commercial
situation.

What is the point in ADC if you can't use floating point?  The 16F88
has ADC but even Microchip's C compiler will not work for it.  I don't
see how ADC can be usful without a multiply and divide instrution to
calcuate the actual voltage value from the 10 bit representation.

I guess I'm hoping there is something that makes floating point easier
for the 16 series.  It sure would be nice to have a convienent way to
represent a floating point number.  I guess I got spoiled on C where
you can put the floating point values in your code without manually
converting to binary.

Thanks!
-
Mark Bellamy

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