User`s guide

Example 1
To find out what results are available in an SDF measurement results file from HP 3566A/67A (swept
sine measurement):
SDFTOSDF /I SINEARB.DAT
This will produce a list on the display such as the following.
Data Name Rows Cols Scans Points Complex Space
0 Freq Response 103 Arb
1 Nrml Variance 2 103 Arb
2 Input Power Ch1 103 Arb
3 Output Power Ch2 103 Arb
4 Cross Power 103 Arb
This shows 5 results are available (0 thru 4) with 103 arbitrarily spaced points (indicative of swept sine
data). The ‘’Rows’’ field (if present) if usually associated with the # of channels of data available for
single channel results.
For example, 2 channels of ‘’Normalized Variance’’ measurement results are present. At this time, the
‘’Columns’’ field is not used (i.e. always only 1 column of data) by any instrument using SDF as a data
format. The ‘’Scans’’ field indicates that this data contains Waterfall results from the HP 3566A/67.
To extract and convert the ‘’Normalized Variance’’ channel 2 (row 0 is channel 1, row 1 is channel 2) to
401 linear spaced points:
SDFTOSDF SINEARB.DAT SINELIN.DAT /D:1 /R:1 /P:401
Example 2
To extract and convert an FRF from the HP 3563A (801 lines at 0 to 100 kHz) to the HP 35665A (401
lines at 0 to 102.4 kHz):
63TOSDF FRF.63 FRF63.DAT
SDFTOSDF FRF63.DAT FRF665.DAT /P:401 /X:,102400
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