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Figure 31 - Hardware multipliers for MSP430
Above is a picture of some of the hardware multipliers that we will implement in our
design project. This is what will be used to carry out the prediction operations in our
system. These operations are very fast which is what we will need to compute real time
results. It also has a very low cost per operation because it requires little power and can
be used even if the microcontroller is partially asleep. As you can see it also has some
very high regions of accuracy which we will incorporate in our timer because we need
that to be as accurate to the minute and, if possible, to the second. We will also use this
to trip the display to show a message which will let the user know they will need to plug
into an external source before the system shuts down and can possibly lose information
or cause damage to the batteries. The batteries have a cutoff voltage, which states that
if the batteries go below this threshold it can damage the battery so we will need to tell
the user that some sort of action needs to be taken.
Figure 32 - MSP430 Architecture
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