Issue
What is the Intel Floating point number as used in the Modbus X Driver?
Product Line
Andover Continuum
Environment
Modbus RTU X Driver
Cause
It is not clear how the two special floating point function codes vary.
Resolution
There are two different floating point data formats (248 & 245) these are both standard 32 bit floating point numbers but the data bits stored in memory (or read over the protocol) differently.
The 32 bits of Function 248 are stored as one string of bits, bit 0 through to bit 31.
For the 245 format the upper and lower words are swapped around, so it stores the data as bits 15 to 0, then bits 31 to bit 16. This format is called Intel format as it is the way Intel microprocessors handle floating point data.
Here is a link to information on floating point numbers FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic
These two formats can also be called Big Endian (Function 248), or Little Endian (Function 245). Little Endian is also known as the Intel format.
Information on Endianness can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
