DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs (Advanced Blockset): Handbook

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Date 5/27/2022
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7.12.20. Reinterpret Cast for Bit Packing and Unpacking

This design example demonstrates the ReinterpretCast block, which packs signals into a long word and extracts multiple signals from a long word.

The first datapath reinterprets a single precision complex signal into raw 32-bit components that separate into real and imaginary parts. A BitCombine block then merges it into a 64-bit signal. The second datapath uses the BitExtract block to split a 64-bit wide signal into a two component vectors of 32-bit signals. The ReinterpretCast block then converts the raw bit pattern into single-precision IEEE format. The HDL that the design synthesizes is simple wire connections, which performs no computation.

The model file is demo_reinterpret_cast.mdl.