Title :
Floating-point computation using a microcontroller
Author :
Randal, Vicent T. ; Schmalzel, John L. ; Shepherd, A.P.
Author_Institution :
Texas Univ., San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract :
A description is given of the increasing numeric processing requirements encountered during instrumentation development with the Intel 8051 microcontroller and of an assembly-language floating-point package obtained and used. For the authors´ application, where there was plenty of time to perform calculations and program memory to store the software required to perform the calculations, incorporation of assembly-language floating-point routines (compatible with ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985) was an effective method.<>
Keywords :
calculation; digital arithmetic; microcontrollers; subroutines; ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985; Intel 8051 microcontroller; assembly-language floating-point package; instrumentation development; numeric processing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94895
