ROM Extensions
In addition to the Spin interpreter and a bootloader, the built-in ROM provides some data which may be useful for certain sound, video, or mathematical applications:
- a bitmap font is provided, suitable for typical character generation applications (but not customizable);
- a logarithm table (base 2, 2048 entries);
- an antilog table (base 2, 2048 entries); and
- a sine table (16-bit, 2049 entries representing first quadrant, angles from 0 to π/2; other three quadrants are created from the same table).
The math extensions are intended to help compensate for the lack of a floating-point unit as well as more primitive missing operations, such as multiplication and division (this is masked in Spin but is a limitation for assembly language routines). The Propeller is a 32-bit processor, however, and these tables may not have sufficient accuracy for higher-precision applications.
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