__low2bfloat16

Applicability

Product	Supported
Atlas 350 Accelerator Card	√
Atlas A3 training product/Atlas A3 inference product	x
Atlas A2 training product/Atlas A2 inference product	x
Atlas 200I/500 A2 inference product	x
Atlas inference product AI Core	x
Atlas inference product Vector Core	x
Atlas training product	x

Function Usage

Returns the low 16 bits of the input data.

Prototype

inline bfloat16_t __low2bfloat16(const bfloat16x2_t x)

Parameters

**Table 1** Parameters
Parameter	Input/Output	Description
x	Input	Source operand.

Returns

Low 16 bits of the input data

Restrictions

For SIMT programming, this API is not supported.

Header Files to Be Included

To use this API, the simt_api/asc_bf16.h header file must be included.

#include "simt_api/asc_bf16.h"

Examples

For SIMD and SIMT programming:

// Use small vectors to improve data movement efficiency.
__simt_vf__ __launch_bounds__(1024) inline void simt_low2bfloat16(__gm__ bfloat16x2_t* input, __gm__ bfloat16_t* output, uint32_t input_total_length)
{
    uint32_t idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
    // Each thread processes one piece of bfloat16x2_t data, that is, two pieces of bfloat16_t data. Therefore, threads with idx greater than or equal to input_total_length/2 do not process data.
    if (idx > input_total_length / 2) {
        return;
    }
    output[idx] = __low2bfloat16(input[idx]);
}
__global__ __vector__ void cast_kernel(__gm__ bfloat16_t* input, __gm__ bfloat16_t* output, uint32_t input_total_length)
{
    asc_vf_call<simt_low2bfloat16>(dim3(1024),  (__gm__ bfloat16x2_t*)input, output, input_total_length);
}

Parent topic: Type Conversion