Using Calibrators to Support float16

[Mm]

Hello all, 

I'm currently trying to include four parameters in my Yamcs XTCE file which are float values that I want to represent using the 16-bit IEEE 754 (float16) format for transmission.

Since Yamcs doesn’t support float16 encoding natively, I’m exploring whether it’s possible to use calibrators to bridge this gap. Specifically, I want to:

• Store the raw value as a 16-bit unsigned integer.
  
  

• Use a calibrator to decode the raw 16-bit value into a float.
  

However, I'm not sure how to do it. I would appreciate any examples/guidance.

[Nicolae Mihalache]

I guess you could use a calibrator but the correct thing to do is to decode data directly as float.

You can implement your own AbstractDataDecoder. There are a few examples in Yamcs; basically you have to implement one method:

Value extractRaw(DataEncoding de, ContainerProcessingContext pcontext, BitBuffer buffer) {

}

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