Floating-point unit
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Oct 17, 2026
Glenn HodgesHOST
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Glenn HodgesHOST
He also was asking what an update on the PDP 1144 FPU card is.
Dave PlummerHOST
Working good.
Dave PlummerHOST
The FPU, or wait, I do have an FPU card in my 1144.
Dave PlummerHOST
I have one in all my computers, so all my PDPs.
Glenn HodgesHOST
Oh, okay.
Glenn HodgesHOST
He says, is there one machine you would show us, and do you have an FPU update? I'm not sure.
Glenn HodgesHOST
The 1144 is what he's referring to.
Joel Schulz-AndresGUEST
And we were like, let's try if it works out.
Joel Schulz-AndresGUEST
And we bought a lot of dev boards from... from the highest performance MCUs to just try around with the accelerators, with the FPU units a little bit and see what works.
Joel Schulz-AndresGUEST
And in the end, we managed to get it to work.
Joel Schulz-AndresGUEST
So we found out that the customer was not interested in a broad range of frequencies, but just in a particular set of frequencies.