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I2C maths FPU

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Scarr

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Anyone heard of anything I can use to do double-presicion maths on?

I have a PIC18F252 and need more maths power, Ideally a I2C FPU would be great.

Thanks
 
Pic's are microcontrollers, they ... control stuff and are not designed to do much math. If you want to do some serious number crunching you should be looking for a CPU system instead of a µC system
 
There are floating point libraries available for many micros (dont know about PICs, I prefer AVRs) -- It takes many cycles. You should always evaluate your problem to make sure that floating point is really needed. for instance, converting period to frequency on the surface requires 1/t. However, if you consider that the unit of t is usually ticks, you can work out an integer approximation.
 
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