On 15 May 2013 05:48, Todd                      Zuercher
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Several of the registers of these drives use a format of "A chain of two 8 
> bit unsigned integers" to quote the manual.
> Basically the drive is using 1 register to write two different pieces of 
> data. The mb2hal component is writing both of these data points to a single 
> s32 pin. How do I separate this into the two numbers I can use. Is there a 
> component that can divide an s32 into 4 u8 numbers? Would I then have to 
> change the 2 u8 numbers I need back to u32 numbers to be able to use them for 
> anything?

u32 throughout would be better if you wanted to use more than 2 bytes.

I think you can do what you want with a messy combination of
conversions, scalings, and possibly weighted-sum and match8
components.
I suspect that a custom component will be neater.

component conv_u32_bytes "convert u32 to 4 bytes, and vice-versa";
pin in unsigned in-u32;
pin in unsigned in-byte-# [4];
pin out unsigned out-u32;
pin out unsigned out-byte-# [4];
nofp;
function _;
license "GPL";
;;
out_byte(0) = (in_u32 & 0x000000FF)
out_byte(1) = (in_u32 & 0x0000FF00) >> 8;
out_byte(2) = (in_u32 & 0x00FF0000) >> 16;
out_byte(3) = (in_u32 & 0xFF000000) >> 24;
out_u32 = in_byte(0) + (in_byte(1) << 8) + (in_byte(2)<<16) + (in_byte(3)<<24);

You will need to convert your s32 to u32 to use this as-written (or
you could change the pin types in the comp to suit)

-- 
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