Me too - At the price it is a nice co-processor dedicated to GPS
location finding.

DLC

rtstofer wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> That uM-FPU V3.1 you mentioned the other day is certainly worth
> considering and not just for GPS sentence parsing.
>
> Compared to the AVRlib soft floating point, this gadget is FAST! That
> you can store functions inside the chip to improve performance (like
> GPS sentence parsing) is even better.
>
> The ability to use the FTOA command to convert a floating point result
> to a string and then use the READSTR command to read the string
> character by character makes it possible to display floating point
> numbers on an LCD without the OOPic ever having to understand floating
> point.
>
> I think I'll order one
> (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8129)
> in the near future and see how it works with the OOPic (and some other
> uC's).
>
> Richard
>
>



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