On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:29:45AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:19:33AM +0000, Grönke, Christian wrote:
> > Hello Guenter,
> >
> > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Guenter Roeck
> > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. März 2019 17:53
> > > An: Grönke, Christian <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > Betreff: Re: PMBus driver for FSP/3Y Power device with non-standard VOUT
> > > values (LINEAR11 vs LINEAR16)
> > >
> > > Hi Christian,
> > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 04:08:32PM +0000, Grönke, Christian wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The framework code seemed to work fine. I used your code for the
> > > conversion:
> > > > linear11 -> 'scaled integer' -> ieee754 It provided a way to test
> > > > the code and was easy for me as my tries to do some other bit magic
> > > > weren't successful. That means I partly tested the code from
> > > > pmbus_data2reg_ieee754 as my read_word function uses this for the
> > > > conversion. Of course not the module local function...
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wondering ... I would have thought that it should be possible to
> > > implement a simplified linear11 <--> ieee754 conversion, without
> > > converting to a scaled integer first. Have you tried that ?
> >
> > There might be a more efficient and elegant way. I toyed around with
> > the conversion for a moment but didn't figure out a working way
> > quickly.
>
> This should work.
>
> u16 lin2ieee(u16 lin11)
> {
> s16 mantissa = ((s16)((lin11 & 0x7ff) << 5)) >> 5;
> int exponent = (((s16)lin11) >> 11) + 25;
> u16 sign = 0;
>
> /* simple case */
> if (mantissa == 0)
> return 0;
>
> if (mantissa < 0) {
> sign = 0x8000;
> mantissa = -mantissa;
> }
>
> while (mantissa < 0x400 && exponent > 1) {
> mantissa <<= 1;
> exponent--;
> }
>
> /* boundary checks */
> if (exponent > 30)
> return sign | 0x7bff;
> if (mantissa < 0x400)
> return sign | 0x0400;
>
> return sign | (exponent << 10) | (mantissa & 0x3ff);
> }
>
Plus, just in case, the other direction.
u16 ieee2lin(u16 ieee)
{
s16 mantissa = (ieee & 0x3ff) + 0x400;
int exponent = ((ieee >> 10) & 0x1f) - 25;
int sign = ieee & 0x8000;
/* simple case */
if (ieee == sign)
return 0;
/* map into lin11 number space */
mantissa >>= 1;
exponent++;
while (mantissa && exponent < -15) {
exponent++;
mantissa >>= 1;
}
/* boundary checks */
if (exponent < -15) /* number too small */
return 0;
if (sign)
mantissa = -mantissa;
return (exponent << 11) | (mantissa & 0x7ff);
}
Guenter
