Test & Measurement: Micromega Chip Does the Math

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Micromega Chip Does the Math
If your microcontroller requires floating-point math operations for temperature values from "raw" digitized sensor information, do the math with eight-pin uM-FPU chips from Micromega.&NOBR> Full Story &/NOBR>

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Contributing Editor Jon Titus describes how he tested the 8-pin floating-point math chip, the uM-FPU V2, from Micromega using a Parallax BASIC Stamp BS2p24 module on a Board of Education breadboard. Post a Reply

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