Android Question How to Split a 32 bits ieee floating point number into bytes and reassemble it?

[Jaime Ramirez]

Hi:

I am writing a program that requires to implement the modbus rtu communications protocol over the usb port, how can I split a 32 bits ieee floating point number into 4 bytes and how to assemble it back from 4 bytes?, any reference on crc16 calculation?

Best regards

Jaime Ramirez

 

[Erel]

You can use ByteConverter library for that or RandomAccessFile.

Dim bc As ByteConverter
Dim bytes() As Byte = bc.FloatsToBytes(Array As Float(123.456))

http://www.b4x.com/search?query=CRC+16