I have a UINT and want to see the individual BITS, how do I do that?

[WKTilton]

I have a STATUS WORD coming from a Festo FB in my Sysmac Studio program and I need to get down to the BOOL level of that UINT as the have specific designations I want to use in my program.  I am not very well versed in Sysmac Studio, how can I do that?

Thanks,

[chelton]

A couple of ways. 

Look at "Union" data types.

Alternatively the "testabit" instruction.

 

[SSK]

Check below example whether helpful, Convert by using Ary byte commands. Can split into each byte into 8 bit

[WKTilton]

I just remembered this morning that I have done this in the past...been a while...  I did use a UNION Data Type 🙂  Then I was able to use "Bits" to view and utilize in the rest of my program.

Thanks for the response anyway 🙂 

[BE]

+1 to the TestABit option. I find it better if I am creating functions or function blocks, as they can easily be copied between programs without having to remember to copy over the union also. And the SetABit and ResetABit functions work perfectly too if you are going the other way (ie. a control word).