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.NET, C#, ILNumerics, Matlab

HDF5 and Matlab Files – Fun with ILNumerics

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Why to use HDF5 and ILNumerics?

HDF5 is a file format (Hierarchical Data Format) especially desgined to handle huge amount of numerical data. Just to mention an example,  NASA chose it to be the standard file format for storing data from the Earth Observing System (EOS).

ILNumerics easily handles HDF5 files. They can be used to exchange data with other software tools, for example Matlab mat files. In this post I will show a step by step guide – how to interface ILNumerics with Matlab.

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C#, ILNumerics, Usage

Uncommon data conversion with ILArray

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ILNumerics Computing Engine supports the most common numeric data types out of the box: double, float, complex, fcomplex, byte, short, int, long, ulong

If you need to convert from, let’s say ushort to float, you will not find any prepared conversion function in ILMath. Luckily, it is very easy to write your own:

Here comes a method which implements the conversion from ushort -> float. A straight forward version first:

        /// <summary>
        /// Convert ushort data to ILArray&lt;float>
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="A">Input Array</param>
        /// <returns>Array of the same size as A, single precision float elements</returns>
        public static ILRetArray<float> UShort2Single(ILInArray<ushort> A) {
            using (ILScope.Enter(A)) {
                ILArray<float> ret = ILMath.zeros<float>(A.S);
                var retArr = ret.GetArrayForWrite();
                var AArr = A.GetArrayForRead();
                int c = 0;
                foreach (ushort a in A) {
                    retArr[c++] = a;
                }
                return ret;
            }
        }

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