On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Scott Dattalo wrote:

> Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
> 
> > Attached is an implementation in assembly language for mid-range (14-bit
> > instructions) PICs.
> > The conversion routine takes 34 program words and runs (always) in 207
> > instruction cycles.
> 
> It's been a while since I looked at this stuff, but 10 years ago we came
> up with an efficient PIC-based algorithm. I think Nikolai's 16-bit version
> can be truncated to 9-bits. This takes 38 cycles (and 38 instructions) for
> a 9-bit binary to packed BCD.
> 
> http://www.piclist.com/tecHREF/microchip/math/radix/b2a-16b3a2-ng.htm
> 

Thank you Scott. We can always rely on you to come up with the real heavy 
stuff :-)

Regards
Sergio Masci
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