Android :: Floating Point Support On G1 Phone

May 17, 2009

I have been searching about the floating point support on G1 phone (aka the HTC Dream phone) for a few hours.

So far, my conclusion is that the ARM-based Qualcomm MSM7201 CPU does not have VFP (floating point coprocessor) and therefore floating point calculations have to be done via software-float.

This is quite disappointing as I am interested in developing applications with heavy math.

However, I also notice that the Qualcomm CPU has QDSP4000™ and QDSP5000™ high-performance digital signal processors (DSP), according to http://www.qctconnect.com/products/msm_7201.html

Therefore, here is my question: would it be possible to leverage the DSP modules in the MSM7201 CPU to do the floating point math?

Also, I would like to develop the heavy-math modules in C/C++ and call it via JNI, and so I just want to double-check whether this is a feasible approach.

Android :: floating point support on G1 phone


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