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Old March 20th 19, 05:37 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes:
[ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking about
using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't it? I'm buying
a new, wireless VDO for $50.


An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator" or
"exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass filter
possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for the
state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more work
in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point arithmetic
and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16,
etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts, and addition and
subtraction only.

--
JS


Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying them as if they had been fractional?
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  #132  
Old March 20th 19, 10:35 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS


Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?

--
JS
  #133  
Old March 21st 19, 01:53 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Radey Shouman
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

James writes:

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS


Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?


Sounds like fixed point arithmetic to me. Suppose you want to
represent signed numbers with 16 bits, 8 of them fractional.
1.0 is represented as 256. 0.5 is represented as 128.

If you multiply two 8.8 numbers together, you get a 16.16 number, shift
right by 8, check for overflow, and you have another 8.8 number.

--
  #134  
Old March 21st 19, 02:25 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Ralph Barone[_4_]
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

Radey Shouman wrote:
James writes:

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS

Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?


Sounds like fixed point arithmetic to me. Suppose you want to
represent signed numbers with 16 bits, 8 of them fractional.
1.0 is represented as 256. 0.5 is represented as 128.

If you multiply two 8.8 numbers together, you get a 16.16 number, shift
right by 8, check for overflow, and you have another 8.8 number.


Or just use hundredths of a km as your internal unit and do integer math,
then put the decimal point in the "wrong" place. Judicious choice of units
can sometimes save you some expensive math.

  #135  
Old March 21st 19, 02:28 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Radey Shouman
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

Ralph Barone writes:

Radey Shouman wrote:
James writes:

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS

Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?


Sounds like fixed point arithmetic to me. Suppose you want to
represent signed numbers with 16 bits, 8 of them fractional.
1.0 is represented as 256. 0.5 is represented as 128.

If you multiply two 8.8 numbers together, you get a 16.16 number, shift
right by 8, check for overflow, and you have another 8.8 number.


Or just use hundredths of a km as your internal unit and do integer math,
then put the decimal point in the "wrong" place. Judicious choice of units
can sometimes save you some expensive math.


True, if they're using a 4-bit micro it's likely they're using decimal
arithmetic. The fly in the ointment is that if you want to sell in the
US you need to support miles.
  #136  
Old March 21st 19, 02:29 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
James[_8_]
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

On 21/3/19 11:53 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
James writes:

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS

Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?


Sounds like fixed point arithmetic to me. Suppose you want to
represent signed numbers with 16 bits, 8 of them fractional.
1.0 is represented as 256. 0.5 is represented as 128.

If you multiply two 8.8 numbers together, you get a 16.16 number, shift
right by 8, check for overflow, and you have another 8.8 number.



There can be a good reason for doing something like that. If x(i)
1/k, for example, and k is 1/16, then k.x(i) = 0, without decimal or
fixed points.

The solution is to leave the output k times greater, and only divide the
output y(i) by k when you need it.

I think this is what Tom was meaning.

--
JS
  #137  
Old March 21st 19, 02:15 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

On 3/20/2019 8:28 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
Ralph Barone writes:

Radey Shouman wrote:
James writes:

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS

Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?

Sounds like fixed point arithmetic to me. Suppose you want to
represent signed numbers with 16 bits, 8 of them fractional.
1.0 is represented as 256. 0.5 is represented as 128.

If you multiply two 8.8 numbers together, you get a 16.16 number, shift
right by 8, check for overflow, and you have another 8.8 number.


Or just use hundredths of a km as your internal unit and do integer math,
then put the decimal point in the "wrong" place. Judicious choice of units
can sometimes save you some expensive math.


True, if they're using a 4-bit micro it's likely they're using decimal
arithmetic. The fly in the ointment is that if you want to sell in the
US you need to support miles.


Popular bike computers use input in cm (rollout for a road
bike is about 2012cm)and offer choice of either unit for
display. That seems to indicate number manipulation is
metric until final display if miles are selected.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971


  #138  
Old March 21st 19, 03:20 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Radey Shouman
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Default GPS Units = Show road steepness?

AMuzi writes:

On 3/20/2019 8:28 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
Ralph Barone writes:

Radey Shouman wrote:
James writes:

On 21/3/19 3:37 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 1:58:13 PM UTC-7, James wrote:
On 20/3/19 4:20 am, Radey Shouman wrote:
writes: [ ... ]

averages in particular. And I think that it was Radey talking
about using IIR which would require a high end FPGA wouldn't
it? I'm buying a new, wireless VDO for $50.

An IIR can be very simple to implement. The "leaky integrator"
or "exponential filter" is probably the simplest digital low-pass
filter possible:

y_i = y_{i-1} + k (x_i - y_{i-1})

In C:

y += k*(x - y);

If you're not too fussed about the actual cutoff frequency the
multiplication can be done as a shift. The precision used for
the state, y, does need to be higher than that of the input.

If you need precise control over the frequency response then more
work in design and more expense in implementation is needed, but
not always.


y(i) = y(i-1) + k.x(i) - k.y(i-1)

y(i) = y(i-1) - k.y(i-1) + k.x(i)

k is usually a fraction, 0 k 1. To avoid floating point
arithmetic and division, if you make it a binary fraction (1/2,
1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc), you can implement the filter with bit shifts,
and addition and subtraction only.

-- JS

Don't you think that it would all be a great deal easier to handle by
multiplying it enough to make them whole numbers and then displaying
them as if they had been fractional?


Can you illustrate your point with an example?

Sounds like fixed point arithmetic to me. Suppose you want to
represent signed numbers with 16 bits, 8 of them fractional.
1.0 is represented as 256. 0.5 is represented as 128.

If you multiply two 8.8 numbers together, you get a 16.16 number, shift
right by 8, check for overflow, and you have another 8.8 number.


Or just use hundredths of a km as your internal unit and do integer math,
then put the decimal point in the "wrong" place. Judicious choice of units
can sometimes save you some expensive math.


True, if they're using a 4-bit micro it's likely they're using decimal
arithmetic. The fly in the ointment is that if you want to sell in the
US you need to support miles.


Popular bike computers use input in cm (rollout for a road bike is
about 2012cm)and offer choice of either unit for display. That seems
to indicate number manipulation is metric until final display if miles
are selected.


That's likely true. That last step is just one more thing that has to
be coded, has to fit in the available program and memory space, has to
run in the available time ... Naturally the user expects it all to just
work.

Maybe it's a good thing metric time never took off.
  #139  
Old March 21st 19, 04:35 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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2012 cm? Are you sure?
 




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