Brain Floating Point (16-bit) Numbers

Functions for conversion between BFloat16 (16-bit Brain Floating Point) and 32-bit Floating Point numbers and other. More...

Functions
SIMD_API void	SimdFloat32ToBFloat16 (const float *src, size_t size, uint16_t *dst)
	Converts numbers in the array from 32-bit float to 16-bit bfloat format. More...
SIMD_API void	SimdBFloat16ToFloat32 (const uint16_t *src, size_t size, float *dst)
	Converts numbers in the array from 16-bit bfloat to 32-bit float format. More...

Detailed Description

Functions for conversion between BFloat16 (16-bit Brain Floating Point) and 32-bit Floating Point numbers and other.

Function Documentation

SimdFloat32ToBFloat16()

void SimdFloat32ToBFloat16	(	const float *	src,
		size_t	size,
		uint16_t *	dst
	)

Converts numbers in the array from 32-bit float to 16-bit bfloat format.

Parameters

[in]	src	- a pointer to the input array with 32-bit float point numbers.
[in]	size	- a size of input and output array.
[out]	dst	- a pointer to the output array with 16-bit bfloat point numbers.

SimdBFloat16ToFloat32()

void SimdBFloat16ToFloat32	(	const uint16_t *	src,
		size_t	size,
		float *	dst
	)

Converts numbers in the array from 16-bit bfloat to 32-bit float format.

Parameters

[in]	src	- a pointer to the input array with 16-bit bfloat point numbers.
[in]	size	- a size of input and output array.
[out]	dst	- a pointer to the output array with 32-bit float point numbers.