How to convert logical vector to a number?

Say I have a logical vector:

logicVector = logical([1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0]);

How do one convert it to a number?

From the code above the conversion would give 136 assuming it is unsigned and MSB first. Preferably the type would be fixed point. Best would be a function similar to matlabs 'fi'.

address = logicVec2fi(logicVector, false, true, 0); % logicVec2fi(input, signed, MSB, fraction length)

This will be used in simulink for a binary search where I get a boolean from each search-step which forms the index/address of a ram from the HDL Coder toolbox

Answer 1

[Tor Hammarbäck]

Thank you for your solutions! I finally found that the bit concat block does what I want when using only one input port.

[Bharath Venkataraman]

I'm glad you found the block. You can also this with the MATLAB function bitconcat.

Answer 2

[DGM]

Well here's one way.

logicVector = logical([1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0]);
sum(2.^(numel(logicVector)-find(logicVector)))

ans = 136

I have no idea if that's the most appropriate for your application. I have no familiarity with using fi or Coder, so I'm just going to stop there.

[Tor Hammarbäck]

Thank you for your soluiton! Perhaps this is the only way, but it seems to use unnessesarly heavy computations when a number is represented in binary after the HDL code generation anyways.