Re: floating point question on MSP430

David R. McCoy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating point
package(FPP)?

http://www-s.ti.com/sc/techzip/slar041.zip, described in
http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slaa024/slaa024.pdf

> I need the uC to take the square root of a number and it seems that
I'll
> have to use the FPP to do it.  Is that true?

It is one way to do it.

> What is the FPP used for?

Fiddles with floating point calculations (two formats provided). RTFM.

Cheers.

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> David R. McCoy wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating point
> package(FPP)?
> 
> http://www-s.ti.com/sc/techzip/slar041.zip, described in
> http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slaa024/slaa024.pdf
> 
> > I need the uC to take the square root of a number and it seems that
>  I'll
> > have to use the FPP to do it.  Is that true?
> 
> It is one way to do it.
> 
> > What is the FPP used for?
> 
> Fiddles with floating point calculations (two formats provided). RTFM.
> 
> Cheers.

There are several methods for calculating sq root.  Search the
archives here and software-eng.  THe one the comes to mind is a
sucessive approximation method that (from MSB to LSB) sets a bit in
the answer then squares the number then tests is the guess squared is
larger input value.  I suspect the 430 will have fast multiply.

Floating point will be large code and time wise.

Good Luck 
George