aclFloatToFloat16

Applicability

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

Description

Converts data from float32 to aclFloat16.

Prototype

aclFloat16 aclFloatToFloat16(float value)

Parameters

Parameter	Input/Output	Description
value	Input	Data to convert.

Returns

Result data.

Note: The C language does not support the float16 type. Therefore, the return value is stored in uint16_t format. If printing is required, convert the value in uint16_t format to a value in float16 or float type first.

Parent topic: Other APIs