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How to convert IEEE-11073 16-bit SFLOAT to simple float in Java?

The title speaks for itself: How to convert IEEE-11073 16-bit SFLOAT to simple float in Java?

Solution

  • You can use bit shifting. extract the sign, exponent and mantissa and shift these so they are in float format. You may need to correct for Infinity and NaN.

    As @PretiP's answer points out the exponent is base 10 so you would need to multiply or divide by a power of 10 to get the final value.