Converting two 16 bits registers to float

[shh]

Hi,
What is the best solution for converting two 16 bits registers from modbus device to floating point in UniStream?  2x16 bit registers = 32 int to float. (IEEE754 single pr).  Is there any FB for this kind of conversion?

The device information: 

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0x12345678 , shall be written in two consecutive registers, where the first register is 3499. Therefor the value has to be transmitted in the following way:

                               Reg 3499, high byte  0x34
                               Reg 3499, low byte 0x12
                               Reg 3500, high byte 0x78
                               Reg 3500, low byte 0x56

I don´t believe I have to do this manually with calculation  according to standard IEEE 754. If anybody know any method, it will be appreciated.

[Saragani]

You can copy the 2 16 bits registers (assuming it is an array of 2 Int16) to a Buffer using "Tag to Buffer". (or use 2 Tag to Buffer" elements, but with an offset of 2 on the second copy).

Then use a "Buffer to Tag", and copy 4 bytes from offset 0 from the buffer into a Real number.

 

Depending on how the value is sent, you might need to swap bytes on the buffer before copying it to Real.
 

 

[shh]

Thanks Saragani, It works perfectly.

[Rafael Zapata]

Some body have a code example to see of this?

[Joe Tauser]

Did you look at this post?

 

 

Joe T.