Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>> Allow non-electronics types to retrieve the data and modify the
>> algorithm in the field (I'm thinking USB or SD memory card)

This and the fact that it probably will be (has to be, considering that
they are "non-electronic types" :) floating point seems to be a critical
thing to look at. There probably needs to be some kind of limitation to the
complexity of the algorithm. (Or are you just talking about modifying the
parameters rather than the algorithm itself?)

> [...] dsPics [...] and with the DSP core any of the calculations should
> be easy. 

I'm not familiar with dsPICs, but DSP often does not much good for floating
point calculations; they have a lot of power for integer array
calculations, though.

Gerhard

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