fixed point conversion

How do I know how LabVIEW manages type conversions and type cast to point fixed.

In particular, I have two problems:

(1) assume I want to convert an integer signed 32-bit to a point fixed <+ ,20,20="">with the function "-fixed-point."

Of course this conversion involves a waste of bits. LabVIEW will keep the most significant bits, or those less important?

The same problem occurs if I want to convert a fixed point of data (for example <+ ,20,20="">) to another fixed point data with fewer bits (for example <+ ,10,10="">).

(2) I have a data represented with a point fixed <+ ,20,10="">and I want to cast to a point fixed <+ ,15,5="">by removing 5 whole bits and keeping the sign.

For example, I have the number - represented 1.5 in <+ ,20,10="">and I want to convert it to <+ ,15,5="">(to be noted that the two representations can express the number correctly).

How can I do such casting?

Thank you

Hi Tom,

That's a fair criticism, there are probably a few tribal knowledge implicit in the documentation. I'll give some briefing notes that might help a little:

  • LabVIEW makes a distinction between the functions of conversion (aka "balls") and casts. Conversion always functions are trying to preserve the numeric value, with a handful of out-of-range values with different rounding and overflow modes. Conversions integer/integer wrap, while all other combinations round to closest and saturated by default. If the destination is FXP, you can configure the modes.
  • Coercion points have the same behaviors as their corresponding conversion function.
  • Type cast is not supported on the FPGA
  • The fixed point to whole and entire Cast to fixed-point slur was created with use FPGA to mind cases. They are not pure bit casts, because they support extension of sign for an arithmetic scaling, as well as ways of handling overflow. I hope that the new documentation is a bit clearer on their behavior.
  • Number of reinterpret is a little pure cast to numbers FXP or integer, available on digital > palette to comma fixed only under target FPGA. It simplifies the behavior by limiting the length of the input word and output is the same.

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