Standard Test Data Format (STDF) is a widely used standard file format for semiconductor test information. It is a commonly used format produced by automatic test equipment (ATE) platforms from companies such as LTX-Credence, Roos Instruments, Teradyne, Advantest, and others.
A STDF file is compacted into a binary format according to a well defined specification originally designed by Teradyne. The record layouts, field definitions, and sizes are all described within the specification. Over the years, parser tools have been developed to decode this binary format in several scripting languages, but as of yet nothing has been released to CPAN for Perl.
Parse::STDF is a first attempt. It is an object oriented module containing methods which invoke APIs of an underlying C library called libstdf (see http://freestdf.sourceforge.net/). libstdf performs the grunt work of reading and parsing binary data into STDF records represented as C-structs. These structs are in turn referenced as Perl objects.
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
Depending on your environment, you may need to add extra cc and linker flags. Here's an example which links with libzzip (used by libstdf).
perl Build.PL --extra_ccflags="-m32 -I/path/to/libzzip/include" \
--extra_ldflags="-m32 -Xlinker -rpath /path/to/libzzip/lib"
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
For compatibility, the older idiom is tolerated:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
- libstdf and development headers
- C compiler
- SWIG (optional)
- Unix OS
The following platforms have been tested:
- RHEL Linux 5.x, 6.x
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Copyright (C) 2014 Erick Jordan [email protected]
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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