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AN-2030: Digital Diagnostic Monitoring Interface for Optical Transceivers

F i n i s a r

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2Table 3.16c: IEEE-754 Single-Precision Floating Point Number Format

FUNCTION

SIGN

EXPONENT

 

 

MANTISSA

BIT

31

30……………………23

22……………………………………………………………0

BYTE

 

3

 

2

1

 

0

ß Most Significant

 

 

 

 

 

Least Significantà

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

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Rx_PWR(4), as an example, is stored as in Table 3.16d.

Table 3.16d: Example of Floating Point Representation

BYTE

CONTENTS

SIGNIFICANCE

ADDRESS

 

 

56

SEEEEEEE

Most

57

EMMMMMMM

2nd Most

58

MMMMMMMM

2nd Least

59

MMMMMMMM

Least

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14where S = sign bit; E = exponent bit; M = mantissa bit.

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16Special cases of the various bit values are reserved to represent indeterminate values

17such as positive and negative infinity; zero; and “NaN”or not a number. NaN indicates

18an invalid result. As of this writing, explanations of the IEEE single precision floating

19point format were posted on the worldwide web at

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21http://www.psc.edu/general/software/packages/ieee/ieee.html

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23and

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25http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html.

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27 The actual IEEE standard is available at www.IEEE.org.

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