[ibis-interconn] Re: Binary Touchstone Specification
- From: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@xxxxxx>
- To: Walter Katz <wkatz@xxxxxxxxxx>, IBIS-Interconnect <ibis-interconn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gregory R Edlund <gedlund@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:22:16 +0000
In Touchstone 2.0 we clarified that all three common line termination sequences
are allowed:
c) line termination sequences -- LF (0Ah), CR+LF (0Dh + 0Ah) or CR (0Dh)
Just saying "\n or \r\n" is incomplete. Macintoshes used \r alone for many
years.
From: ibis-interconn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ibis-interconn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walter Katz
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:43 PM
To: IBIS-Interconnect; Gregory R Edlund
Subject: [ibis-interconn] Binary Touchstone Specification
All,
I took a little liberty and mad some minor modifications to Greg's original
specification
Binary format touchstone files as defined by IBIS Touchstone 2.x add the
statement to indicate binary format, the immediately following data is in
binary instead of ASCII. :
% BINARY DL
% BINARY DB
% BINARY FL
% BINARY FB
% BINARY ML
% BINARY MB
The format specifier convention is as follows :
D : double
F : float
M : double freq, float data
L : little-endian
B : big-endian
Thus DL is double, little-endian.
The above line can be followed by a \n or a \r\n to indicate newline.
Immediately following the newline sequence is one pad 0 byte which indicates
the following data is binary format numbers.
In addition to the above codes DL, DB, FL, FB, ML, MB we can add
FFL FDL SQL DFL DDL DQL QFL QDL QQL FFB FDB FQB DFB DDB DQB QSB QDB QQB
The conventions for these new codes would be
First Character Precision of Frequency
F Single Precision 32 bits
D Double Precision 62 bits
Q Quad Precision 128 bits
Second Character Precision of Data
F Single Precision 32 bits
D Double Precision 62 bits
Q Quad Precision 128 bits
Third Character Little/Big Endian
L Little Endian
B Big Endian
So QDB would be 128 bit frequency, 64 bit data, big endian.
The following cases would be identical
DL DDL
DB DDB
FL FFL
FB FFL
ML DFL
MB DFB
An if memory serves me correctly, the only other things were that there would
be no [End] termination record for the Network Data, and that 2-Port Touchstone
Files cannot have noise data when using the % BINARY option.
Walter
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