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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMCU math chip adds up.(Embedded Math)
ECN-Electronic Component News, August, 2006 by Titus, Jon
Although compilers and assemblers produce tight integer-math code, floating-point math can require memory-hogging code libraries that emulate math operations. So, a small MCU might stall when it must compute trig or exponential values.
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