Detailed Description

The PriorityEncoder

PriorityEncoder is an operator that encodes the highest valued input's index as an output Index value. It implements the Priority encoder algorithm but also extends this for values. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_encoder

Arguments

Actual Processing Code of the PriorityEncoder

unsigned int PriorityEncoder<T>::Process()
{
  auto selected = 0u;
  bool priority = m_mode == "Priority";
  T indexedValue = priority?std::numeric_limits<T>::lowest():std::numeric_limits<T>::max();
  for (auto i=0u; i < m_arguments.size(); i++)
    if ((!m_ignoreZeroValues || *m_arguments[i]!=static_cast<T>(0)) && m_arguments[i] != m_index)
    {
      if (priority && *m_arguments[i] > indexedValue)
      {
        selected = i - 1;
        indexedValue = static_cast<T>(*m_arguments[i]);
      }
      else if (!priority && *m_arguments[i] < indexedValue) {
        selected = i - 1;
        indexedValue = static_cast<T>(*m_arguments[i]);
      }
    }
  *m_index = selected;
  return STATUS_OK;
}