Swiss Micros announces DM42L

[Namir]

I got an email from Swiss Micros' Michael Steinmann today showing the prototype for the HP-42S clone, the DM42L. The calculator is based on Tom Okken's Free42 emulator and should be available in the summer of 2016. The email has a YouTube video link showing a demo with the DM42L.

The YouTube link mentions the following information, and I quote:

Quote:It uses the Intel® Decimal Floating-Point Math Library and uses IEEE 754-2008 quadruple precision decimal floating-point, which consumes 16 bytes per number, and gives 34 decimal digits of precision, with exponents ranging from -6143 to +6144

This is the most precise standalone hand-held calculator on earth, second to none! And it uses the powerful and proven RPN logic.

It runs on a single CR2032 battery. The total current consumption of the ARM Cortex-M4 CPU running at 26MHz and its LCD is less than 3mA, but most of the time it's idle consuming only about 130uA.

Namir