Struct phydat_t

#[repr(C)]
pub struct phydat_t {
    pub val: [i16; 3],
    pub unit: u8,
    pub scale: i8,
}

@brief Generic data structure for expressing physical values

Physical data is expressed in a 3-dimensional tuple of values. In addition to the data fields, this struct contains further the (physical) unit and the scale factor of the data. The unit is expressed as constant. The scale factor is expressed as power of 10 (10^factor).

The combination of signed 16-bit numbers with and the scale factor gives us a very high dynamic range (from -3210^-131 to 3210^130). In a wider sense we are saving the values as fixed floating points…

The scale factor is identical for all 3 values.

In a traditional (scientific) computational system the obvious choice for the used data type would be to use floats. We are however on heavily resource constrained (even 8-bit) embedded systems, so we use int16_t here. As most sensor are in some way ADC based, they normally do not use a higher accuracy than 12-14bit, so using 16-bit integers to represent this data is good enough in most cases.

Fields

val: [i16; 3]

< the 3 generic dimensions of data

unit: u8

< the (physical) unit of the data

scale: i8

< the scale factor, 10^scale

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for phydat_t

fn clone(&self) -> phydat_t

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for phydat_t

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Default for phydat_t

fn default() -> phydat_t

Returns the “default value” for a type.

impl Copy for phydat_t

Layout

Note: Most layout information is completely unstable and may even differ between compilations. The only exception is types with certain repr(...) attributes. Please see the Rust Reference's “Type Layout” chapter for details on type layout guarantees.

Size: 8 bytes