Paypal came through & managed to suck our last paycheck into China, so forget about the VicaGlider budget & get ready 4 VicaCopter III.

Now an embedded update.

Phone fans don't like talking about the CPUs in their corporate branded trophies because they're so damn slow. That's why it was really hard to find this out.

iPhone 3G: 412Mhz ARM CPU No FPU.
gPhone: 528Mhz ARM CPU No FPU.

The 600Mhz Gumstix boards we used R being phased out & replaced by new green themed boards running at, wait for it, 600Mhz! "NEON" FPU.

While advertised as dual core, the gPhone CPU is really a 1.5 core & the half core is for communication.

http://www.semiconductor.com/resourc...sinumber=20278

gPhone is written in Java. iPhone is written in C. The gPhone GUI is less responsive. Corporations don't pass higher clockspeeds to users. They use the clockspeeds to write cheaper software.

So unless you're into programming DSP's & FPGA's, the embedded floating point hasn't gone anywhere.

Are you referring to the new "overo" boards from Gumstix ?
I hoped they had hardware-accelerated FP, at least for the basic operations in single precision - something called "NEON floating point" in the Cortex-A8 block diagram.

They do have NEON support on the datasheet although it's not advertised as an FPU until the Cortex A9. They don't seem to want to brag about it. We're not buying anyway.