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The desire to pro vide a base line imple men ta tion comes from our obser va tions of many poor imple men ta tions and mea sure ment setups and our own expe ri ence of all small details that can go wrong. The value of an embed ded imple men ta tion is the mod u lar ity and the small weight, bulk, and price in com par i son with the typ i cal sensor-plus-laptop research sys tems. This alle vi ates the work of inte gra tion in larger real-time nav i ga tion sys tems and makes it pos si bil ity to equip a large num ber of users with sen sors for field per for mance tests and coop er a tive nav i ga tion stud ies. Our hope is that this imple men ta tion will save time, sweat, and tears for nav i ga tion researchers and facil i tate the use of foot-mounted iner tial nav i ga tion by researchers not spe cial ized in iner tial nav i ga tion, e.g. in fields such as bio med ical engi neer ing, behav ioral sci ence, and ubiq ui tous computing.