isfread

Version 1.1.0.0 (3.93 KB) by Iain Robinson
Read a waveform from a file in the internal format (ISF) used by some Tektronix oscilloscopes.
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Some Tektronix oscilloscopes, including the TDS 360 for which I wrote this function, can save a waveform to a file in an "internal" format. These files have the extension: ISF. They consist of a text (ASCII) header, followed by binary waveform data.

ISFREAD parses the header into a MATLAB structure, reads the binary data, and calculates the horizontal (x) and vertical (y) points that make up the waveform.

The TDS 360 and similar models can save data in multiple formats, however the internal (ISF) format is the most useful for several reasons. As the data is binary, it is saved very quickly. The files also include important information in the header, such as the oscilloscope settings.

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Iain Robinson (2024). isfread (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/38081-isfread), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2011a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Inspired by: IsfRead, isfread: updated, isfread

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Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.0

Files read from the oscilloscope's serial port have some minor differences to files saved to disk. I made some modifications to the header parsing to allow it to read both.
1.0.0.0