> >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.
>
> Which is what I suspect the OP will really need anyway. As has been
> discussed many times on this list, when dealing with sensors it is not
> really floating point that is required, but a wider integer, possibly
> representing a fixed point value. IIRC the DSP engine is 40 bits wide.
>

_I_ realize I can do the math without floating point, but that's not realy
the issue. This will never be a production product so an extra $10 for a
bigger proccessor is a total non-issue. But mechanical engineers (cough -
spit :-) will have to be able to understand what's going on and be able to
modify the algorithm. Floating point makes that a LOT easier.

-Denny

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