Manual

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 2 7
1-Byte Character
Byte 0
7 0
2-Byte Integer
LSB MSB
7 0 15 8
4-Byte Number — Integer or Floating Point
LSB Byte 1 Byte 2 MSB
7 0 15 8 23 16 31 24
8-Byte Number — Integer or Floating Point
LSB Byte 1 Byte 2 Byte 3 Byte 4 Byte 5 Byte 6 MSB
7 0 15 8 23 16 31 24 39 32 47 40 55 48 63 56
Integer numbers are organized exactly as above, where each bit has a unique
significance equal to two raised to the power equal to the number of the bit
position.
Floating point numbers are represented according to the IEEE Standard floating
point formats described next. The formats are described in bit order from MSB to
LSB. Remember that the bytes are “out of order” as described above according
to the Intel processor number representation convention.
Appendix A: Q-MIPS File Format