Decimal to Binary (ieee 754)
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WhatIsMatlab-
on 12 Feb 2016
Answered: Walter Roberson
on 14 Feb 2016
I want to create a code that converts decimal to ieee754. I do not want to use dec2bin so I do not know where to start. I want x to be my decimal number, eb to number of exponent bits and mb for my mantissa. The outputs are the convert value 'q' followed by s, e, m for sign, exponent, mantissa.
function [q, s, e, m,] = GetRepresentationIEEE754(x, eb, mb)
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Guillaume
on 13 Feb 2016
Note that I wouldn't call my function conv as that name is already used by matlab for 1d convolution.
A better name would be GetRepresentationIEEE754.
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Walter Roberson
on 14 Feb 2016
First you should convert the values to binary. You can do that with num2hex() to get hex that can be converted. Or you can use typecast() to reform the number into one of the unsigned integer data types.
Once you have the number in an unsigned integer data type, you can use bitget() or dec2bin() or de2bi() to convert the number into a binary form, from which you can extract individual groups of bits.
As a practical matter, I would point out that if you use dec2bin() on a uint64() then the number will be converted to double precision before it is converted to binary, and that is going to lose about 13 bits of value in the process (because uint64 are 64 bits and double precision can represent 53 bits.) I would therefore suggest that if you are planning to use dec2bin() that you do not typecast() to uint64 -- typecast to either uint8() or uint32() instead.
But personally I would probably typecast() to uint64, mod() to get the mantissa, bitshift() to remove the mantissa, mod() to get the exponent, bitshift() to get the sign...
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