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Denition
of
CITIle
T
erms
This
section
will
dene
the
following
terms:
package
header
data
array
keyword
A
CITIle
P
ackage
A
typical
package
is
divided
into
two
parts:
The rst
part, the
header,
is made
up
of
keywords
and
setup
information.
The
second
part,
the
data,
usually consists
of one
or more
arrays of
data.
Example
1
shows
the basic
structure of
a CITIle
package:
Example
1,
A
CITIle
Package
The
\header"
part
CITIFILE
A.01.00
NAME
MEMORY
V
AR
FREQ
MA
G
3
D
A
T
A
S
RI
The
\data" part
BEGIN
-3.54545E-2,-1.38601E-3
0.23491E-3,-1.39883E-3
2.00382E-3,-1.40022E-3
END
When
stored
in
a
disk
le
there
may
be
more
than
one
CITIle
package
.
With
the
8510 network
analyzer
,
for
example
,
storing
a
\memory
all"
will
save
all
eight
of
the
memories
held
in the
instrument.
This
results
in
a
single
le
which
contains
eight
CITIle
packages
.
The
CITIle
Header
The
header
section
contains
information
about
the
data
that
will
follow.
It may
also
include
information
about
the
setup
of
the
instrument
that
measured the
data. The
CITIle header
shown
in
Example
1
has
just
the
bare
minimum
of
information necessary;
no instrument
setup
information
was
included.
An
Array
of Data
An array
is numeric
data that
is arranged
with one
data element
per line
.
A
CITIle
package
may contain
more
than
one
array
of
data.
Arrays
of
data
start
after the
BEGIN
keyword,
and
the END keyword will
follow the last data element in an array
.
A CITIle package does not
necessarily need to include data arrays; for instance
, CITIle could
be used to store the current
state of an instrument. In that case the keywords V
AR, D
ATA,
BEGIN, and END would not be
required.
A-2 The CITIle Data Format and Keyword Reference