Convert fractional number to hardware

[stevepre]

Is there any tools or anybody has a script or program that can quickly convert a fractional number to hardware representation?

For example: (simple one that people can usually calculate it by inspection)
0.5 = 0.1
0.25 = 0.01
-0.5 = 1.1
-0.25 = 1.11
-0.0001234 = ?????

And it gets more complicated if there is interger number combined, like 123.456

Is there a program or a script which can do that?
Thanks

 

[jackson_peng]

as for your criteria: the follow perl script can do the 16 bit fix point fractional number representation:
"-1<=x<1, the first bit is the signed bit, the remaining 15 bit are fraction part"

open SRC, "data";
while (<SRC>) {
chomp($_);
$_=$_*(2**15);
printf DST "%b,", $_;
}

 

[stevepre]

thanks Jackson_peng.

However, there's problem with your script when dealing with negative numbers. It always prints out full 32 chars....

Any solution?

 

[nand_gates]

Checkout this just stripped off lower 16 bits from 32 bits

open SRC, "data";
while (<SRC>) {
    chomp($_);
    print "n = ".$_." " ;
    $_=$_*(2**15);
    $t = sprintf( "%0.16b", $_);
    @k = split(//,$t);
    for ($i=0; $i < 16; $i++) {
        print $k[$i];
    }
    print "\n";
}

 

[stevepre]

Result:
n = 0.5 0100000000000000
n = 0.25 0010000000000000
n = 0.125 0001000000000000
n = 0.1234 0000111111001011
n = -0.5 1111111111111111
n = -0.25 1111111111111111
n = -0.125 1111111111111111
n = -0.1234 1111111111111111

still...negative number is still the main problem

 

[jackson_peng]

for negative number, just add (2**16) might remove the front 16 bit 1s