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Hi all,

 

i try to generate a sinewave in FPGA (NI cRIO Platform), to do that I use the specific VI (Sine Wave Generator) for fpga  to produce a sinewave in UINT16 data type.

Unfortunatelly my AO module works with FXP data type  (see attach) and I need to adaptd the UINT16 to AO module.

A simple cast is not sufficent because I loss information, any suggestion ?

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Thanks at all, both solution works.

My question is an academic question. If I connect the sine wave generator to AO port or to Multiply operator a "cast" (red dot) is used by LV. Now, I must certificated my project and the assessor could be ask something about the red dot so how I can demonstrate that I don't not loss the information ? One solution is the test as decribed by "infinitenothing" or logical approach as suggest by Jordan. Does exist the way to avoid the cast without change the HW settings?

 

Regards

 

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The red dot just indicates that LabVIEW will be coercing the data for you so whether there is a loss of information depends on what the data is being coerced from and to. For instance, if a U8 is being coerced into a U16 there isn't any loss of data but if we instead coerce the U16 into a U8 we are losing the top 8 bits of data (depending on what we know about this data this may or may not be an issue for us). FXP conversion will likely lose information because LabVIEW tries to preserver the value rather than keeping the bit value and changing the interpretation of those bits.

If you attach the project you are working out of we should be able help explain what would happen for your particular case. 

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