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1 /* Copyright 2015 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved.
2 
3 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
4 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
5 You may obtain a copy of the License at
6 
7     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
8 
9 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
10 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
11 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
12 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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14 ==============================================================================*/
15 
16 #ifndef TENSORFLOW_CORE_FRAMEWORK_BFLOAT16_H_
17 #define TENSORFLOW_CORE_FRAMEWORK_BFLOAT16_H_
18 
19 #include "tensorflow/core/framework/numeric_types.h"
20 #include "tensorflow/core/platform/byte_order.h"
21 #include "tensorflow/core/platform/types.h"
22 
23 #if defined(PLATFORM_WINDOWS)
24 #include "tensorflow/core/platform/windows/cpu_info.h"
25 #endif
26 
27 // Compact 16-bit encoding of floating point numbers. This representation uses
28 // 1 bit for the sign, 8 bits for the exponent and 7 bits for the mantissa.  It
29 // is assumed that floats are in IEEE 754 format so the representation is just
30 // bits 16-31 of a single precision float.
31 //
32 // NOTE: The IEEE floating point standard defines a float16 format that
33 // is different than this format (it has fewer bits of exponent and more
34 // bits of mantissa).  We don't use that format here because conversion
35 // to/from 32-bit floats is more complex for that format, and the
36 // conversion for this format is very simple.
37 //
38 // Because of the existing IEEE float16 type, we do not name our representation
39 // "float16" but just use "uint16".
40 //
41 // <-----our 16bits float------->
42 // s e e e e e e e e f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f
43 // <------------------------------float-------------------------->
44 // 3 3             2 2             1 1                           0
45 // 1 0             3 2             5 4                           0
46 //
47 //
48 // This type only supports conversion back and forth with float.
49 //
50 // This file must be compilable by nvcc.
51 //
52 // The type is defined in framework/numeric_types.h.
53 
54 namespace tensorflow {
55 
56 // Conversion routines between an array of float and bfloat16 of
57 // "size".
58 void FloatToBFloat16(const float* src, bfloat16* dst, int64 size);
59 void BFloat16ToFloat(const bfloat16* src, float* dst, int64 size);
60 
61 }  // namespace tensorflow
62 
63 #endif  // TENSORFLOW_CORE_FRAMEWORK_BFLOAT16_H_
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