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FPT : how to inherit an fi object's attributes

Michael Hui — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:49:01 -0400

In my MATLAB workspace I do this:

cordic_p.addr_size = 4;

cordic_p.out_size = 23;

cordic_p.phase_size = pow2(cordic_p.addr_size);

cordic_p.phdiff_size = cordic_p.phint_size -
cordic_p.phase_size;

phase_size_int = cordic_p.phase_size - 2; % The RTL only
does phase_size - 2 iterations, so we match it here

% Generate atan() ROM values
atan_quantized = fi ( atan(pow2(0:-1:-phase_size_int+1))/pi, ...
    'Signed', 0, 'WordLength', cordic_p.out_size-2,
'FractionLength', cordic_p.out_size-2, 'OverflowMode',
'saturate', 'RoundMode', 'round');

And then I pass atan_quantized to a function as a read-only
argument.

I want to create an fi object inside the function that
inherits almost all attributes of that argument, except I
want to increase its word length.

What is the proper way to do this?

I can do it like this inside the function, which is very
tedious:

aq = fi(zeros(size(atan_quantized)),...
   atan_quantized.fimath,...
   atan_quantized.numerictype,...
   'WordLength',atan_quantized.numerictype.WordLength+2,...

'FractionLength',atan_quantized.numerictype.FractionLength+2);

Re: FPT : how to inherit an fi object's attributes

Ashok Charry — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:39:51 -0400

Hi Michael,

What you are doing to inherit the fi's properties is correct. My suggestion
(below) is not a huge improvement but its fewer characters to type:

aq = fi(zeros(size(atan_quantized)),...
        atan_quantized.Signed,...
        atan_quantized.WordLength+2,...
        atan_quantized.FractionLength+2,...
        atan_quantized.fimath);

Hope that helps,

Ashok Charry
The MathWorks

On 8/15/08 3:49 PM, in article g84mjd$hpd$1@fred.mathworks.com, "Michael
Hui" <myhui@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In my MATLAB workspace I do this:
>
> cordic_p.addr_size = 4;
>
> cordic_p.out_size = 23;
>
> cordic_p.phase_size = pow2(cordic_p.addr_size);
>
> cordic_p.phdiff_size = cordic_p.phint_size -
> cordic_p.phase_size;
>
> phase_size_int = cordic_p.phase_size - 2; % The RTL only
> does phase_size - 2 iterations, so we match it here
>
> % Generate atan() ROM values
> atan_quantized = fi ( atan(pow2(0:-1:-phase_size_int+1))/pi, ...
> 'Signed', 0, 'WordLength', cordic_p.out_size-2,
> 'FractionLength', cordic_p.out_size-2, 'OverflowMode',
> 'saturate', 'RoundMode', 'round');
>
>
> And then I pass atan_quantized to a function as a read-only
> argument.
>
> I want to create an fi object inside the function that
> inherits almost all attributes of that argument, except I
> want to increase its word length.
>
> What is the proper way to do this?
>
> I can do it like this inside the function, which is very
> tedious:
>
> aq = fi(zeros(size(atan_quantized)),...
> atan_quantized.fimath,...
> atan_quantized.numerictype,...
> 'WordLength',atan_quantized.numerictype.WordLength+2,...
>
> 'FractionLength',atan_quantized.numerictype.FractionLength+2);
>

Re: FPT : how to inherit an fi object's attributes

Donn Shull — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:35:03 -0400

The way you are doing this now is the "proper way" to do
it. If you are looking for alternatives then you could
create methods in the @embedded/@fi directory to give you
more flexibility. For instance you could create a file
setWordLength.m with this code:

function this = setWordLength(this, wordLength)

this.WordLength = wordLength;

in that directory. Then after restarting MATLAB you could
do the following

aq = atan_quantized.copy;
aq.setWordLength(23);

But this would be an "improper way" to do this.

Re: FPT : how to inherit an fi object's attributes

Michael Hui — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:20:17 -0400

I thank you both for sharing your thoughts.

The difference between the following:

aq = fi(zeros(size(atan_quantized)),...
atan_quantized.fimath,...
atan_quantized.numerictype,...
'WordLength',atan_quantized.numerictype.WordLength+2,...
'FractionLength',atan_quantized.numerictype.FractionLength+2);

aq = fi(zeros(size(atan_quantized)),...
        atan_quantized.Signed,...
        atan_quantized.WordLength+2,...
        atan_quantized.FractionLength+2,...
        atan_quantized.fimath);

is that the first one takes in all properties of numerictype
without listing them out, and the second one lists them
explicitly.

I suppose the two will work differently if one adds more
properties to numerictype. The first method will continue to
inherit all properties and the second one might miss the new
properties.

So that's why both of you said the first method is the
proper method. Thanks for that!