Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, 42Bastian Schick <bastian42@...> wrote:
>
> Paul Curtis schrieb:
> 
> > That's right.  There's the Maverick Crunch aka EP9312 with non-ARM FP,
> > and the LPC3000 with the first VFP implementation IIRC.  I don't
believe
> > there is any other ARM/XScale with FPU on chip.
> 
> Also, I thing there are very few application which need floating point.
> (Those I have seen did it because the programmers where too lazy to
> think about fixed point.)
> 
> -- 
> 42Bastian
>

Maybe...  But inverse kinematics for a 5 DOF robotic arm is a lot
easier to do with FP (and trig functions) than without.


Richard