Module subword 

Various convenience utilities for splitting 36-bit TX-2 words into smaller components and for joining them together.

Functions

join_halves

Join two 18-bit values into a 36-bit word.

join_quarters

Join two quarters into a halfword.

left_half

Extract the right (less-significant) halfword from a full word.

quarters

Split a 36-bit word into four 9-bit quarters. The result is a tuple which contains the quarters ordered from most-significant (Q4) to least-significant (Q1).

right_half

Extract the right (more-significant) halfword from a full word.

split_halfword

Split a halfword into left (more significant) and right (less significant) 9-bit quarters (in the sense that they are quarters of the original 26-bit full word).

split_halves

Split a 36-bit word into two 18-bit values.