Denny Esterline 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. [...]

For something like this, Forth would be quite good. Possibly some Basic
interpreter engines, too.

> I'm secretly hoping that I can distill it to some sort of lookup table.

If this is about a feedback control system, I'm not sure that makes sense
or works at all. A simple PID controller is easy enough to parametrize, but
you are indicating that they may want to experiment with something a bit
more elaborate, possibly with nonlinear portions and characteristics that
depend on the history. How would that work with lookup tables?

Gerhard

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