Editing Packed to Unpacked

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Converts a stream of packed bytes or shorts to stream of unpacked bytes or shorts

This is the inverse of [[Unpacked to Packed]]

The bits in the bytes or shorts input stream are grouped into chunks of bits and each resulting chunk is written right-justified to the output stream of bytes or shorts. All 8 or 16 bits of the each input byte or short are processed. 

The combination of this block followed by [[Chunks to Symbols]] handles the general case of mapping from a stream of bytes or shorts into arbitrary float or complex symbols.

== Parameters == 
# '''bits_per_chunk''': How many bits to include in each output byte/short
# '''endianness''': Whether to start with the MSB or LSB when processing the input bits
# '''Number of Ports''': Number of input and output ports, in case you need multiple parallel streams

Example:

If bits_per_chunk = 1 and MSB is selected,

input :  0b11110000

output : 0b00000001 0b00000001 0b00000001 0b00000001 0b00000000 0b00000000 0b00000000 0b00000000