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Andrew
Hi David,
We only have a binary format IQ file. You will probably need to write a small bit of code to convert this to human readable format. There is a a section in the user manual about the format, but it is simple enough to describe the basics here. The binary file contains alternating IQ values stored as signed 16-bit shorts that have been normalized with a scalar. The scalar is stored in the companion XML file. You will need to unpack the IQ values, convert them floating point values, and apply the scalar (multiply each IQ value by the scalar).
We have talked about writing a conversion utility to convert our files to CSV, but don’t have immediate plans for this.
There might be other tools like Matlab which could greatly simply this process.
Let me know if you have additional questions.
Regards,
Andrew
