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Paul Maddox wrote:
> Russell,
> 
> 
>>Do you really need thousands of calcs per sec, or just a few calcs
>>in a very short interval?
> 
> 
> The 16Mhz Mega16 I'm using is begining to struggle, speed wise. I mean, i
> can notice it in the output.
> Its doing quite a bit, and I've had to use some floating point calculations
> (something I've tried very hard to avoid, but I can't).
> The problem is, I need it to do a bit more than it is doing currently, and I
> expect this will cause it to slow down too much.
> So, yes, I need more speed, 24Mhz would be safe, 32Mhz would just be a dream
> come true.
> 
> Paul

But that's still not answering the Q;)

If you're doing unneccessary averaging or something, you could do it once
every 10th time around the superloop or whatever. I do a ton of realtime
dsp control stuff with floating point on an at90s8535.