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Data Export
Data can be exported from the Coco in a number of popular formats so that it can be used with third party software.
Data can be copied from the CoCo to a PC using the EDM software.
Data can be exported in all popular formats from the EDM software.
The nature of signal measurement generates a large number of records. The EDM software provides tools to manage this data to simplify searching, review and exporting the data. Data can be searched by key words, date or time, size or other file attributes. Data can be previewed via thumbnail representations of the data or by text file attributes. Data can be replayed within the search tool including the ability to scroll through a long time stream to verify that the record contains the required properties. EDM simplifies the process of exporting data from the native ASAM ODS format to other popular universal formats including UFF, BUFF and ASCII.
The data format within the CoCo-80 and the EDM software is the ASAM ODS File format. ASAM ODS files have the suffix ATFX. EDM also interfaces to other file formats including NI-TDM, MatLab, UFF, BUFF and user-defined ASCII files.
ASAM ODS (Open Data Service) - The rapid progress in hardware and software leads to storage of data in many different data base systems as well as under different hardware and/or server generations. During development and production of complex products, a huge mass of data is produced. Today, data are stored within the automotive industry in a standardized format specified by the ASAM ODS workgroup. ASAM stands for Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems, and ODS stands for “Open Data Services”. The CoCo-80 uses the ASAM ODS data format as the internal data format and data is saved by default in this format when it is downloaded from the device to a PC.
The ASAM ODS standard has the fundamental quality of storing data with an architecture-independent method. This leads to great advantages when exchanging data between different sources and possible prospective customers.
Many systems in test, evaluation, and simulation environments have their own proprietary formats to store data. These formats usually are very different from each other regarding the description of the configuration (unit under test, test sequence, test equipment, etc.) as well as the way results are stored (database, binary files, etc.).
The main objectives for a standardization of data access interfaces are to reduce costs and risks within projects, and to provide a reliable basis for implementations in the area of data storage and data usage. Using standardized interfaces and common structures minimizes the efforts for the system integration within the heterogeneous environments discussed above and makes it much easier to exchange data.
Because of these benefits the ASAM ODS data format was chosen as the internal format for the CoCo-80 and the EDM software.
Other export data formats supported include:
UFF Files
The Binary 58 Universal File Format (BUFF)
ASCII UFF
MATLAB file - This is the standard file that can be imported into Matlab.
NI-TDM file - This is a structured data format that is defined and widely used by the LabView from National Instruments.
User Defined ASCII file
CSV (Microsoft Excel) File - This is the ASCII file that the Microsoft Excel can directly read.
WAV File - This is the sound wave files that can be played by most of the media players. Due to limited information a wave file can carry, the wave files exported only contain very basic waveform shape and it does not hold any attribute information of ODS. You are expected to use the .WAV file to listen to its sound effect, instead of for data processing.
