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Converts any non-complex number to fixed-point representation. If you do not wire a value to the fixed-point type input or configure the output settings of this function, it returns a signed fixed-point number with a 32-bit word length and a 16-bit integer word length by default. This function saturates the number by default if overflow occurs.

Details  

	fixed-point type can be any fixed-point number. If you wire a value to this input, the fixed-point output value uses the configuration settings of the fixed-point type value, including the encoding, word length, integer word length, and desired range.
	number can be any non-complex number.
	fixed-point is the value of number in fixed-point representation.

To Fixed-Point Details

To override the default behavior of this function, right-click the function and select Properties from the shortcut menu to display the Numeric Node Properties dialog box. You can use this dialog box to configure the output settings of this function.