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Floating point feathsr

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I am considering a project that needs to do a fair amount of floating point arithmetic and connect to my wifi mesh network.

My first choice was the M0 wifi feather with ATWinc1500. I probably would just buy it except it isn't available. I'm not sure how fast fp is on the board, but probably fast enough. I looked on mouser and the claim is it wont be available till end of january.

My next choice is to use the M4 feather but there is no M4 with ATWinc1500 available and I cant find an ATWinc1500 feather wing. With this option I could start on the project sooner and just connect the wifi wing later. Is there a reason this is not available?

What other options do I have? I'm using the feathers to keep the soldering down to a minimum as my eyes aren't what they used to be.

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Re: Floating point feathsr

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I'd go with a Feather M4 Express and an AirLift Featherwing combo or the ItsyBitsy M4 Express and AirLight Bitsy Addon.

I don't believe the SAMD21 has hardware floating point, while the SAMD51 does.

Dave

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