User`s guide

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What is Standard Data Format?
Introduction
Standard Data Format, SDF, is a data format that allows measurement and analysis data to be shared
among several HP analyzers (see chapter 1 for a list of the supported analyzers). See appendix B for a
complete description of each field in the SDF file.
SDF supports analyzers with a very broad range of functionality. Not all the supported analyzers use
SDF’s full capabilities. The rest of this chapter describes some of these differences. Use the SDFTOSDF
utility (described in chapter 4) to extract from an SDF file the information of interest.
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