User`s guide

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Probe 17
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Section Information Message Box
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Simulation Results in
ASCII Format
The default Probe data file format is binary. However, you can
save the Probe data file in the Common Simulation Data Format
(CSDF) instead.
To save simulation results in ASCII format
1
In Schematics, from the Analysis menu, select Probe Setup.
2
In the Probe Setup Options dialog box, select the Data
Collection tab.
3
Select Text Data File Format (CSDF).
4
Click OK.
PSpice A/D will write simulation results to the Probe data
file in ASCII format (as
.csd instead of .dat) following
the CSDF convention.
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: Data files saved in the
CSDF format are two or more
times the size of binary files.
When you first open a CSDF
data file, Probe converts it back
to the Probe
.dat format. This
conversion takes two or more
times as lon
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a .dat
Probe file. Probe saves the new
.dat file for future use.