Introduction

• basic architecture
• decoupling setup issues
• decoupling the platform
• basic design
• practical concerns
• summary

Requirements

• general
• sweep
• fundamental use case
• changes of instrument state
• multiple files
• excess number of sweeps
• dissimilar states
• file compression
• data tools
• summary

Design

• general
• organization of Sweep objects by SimData
• file access operations
• file compression
• data tools
• summary

Implementation

• general
• software technologies
• sample stream encoding and decoding
• stream buffering
• file, data structure, and container issues
• limitations and performance considerations
• file compression
• data tools - incl. Matlab
• summary

Results

• record/playback simulator
• file compression
• data tools
• summary

Discussion

• general
• role of the record/playback method
• software testing
• model development
• applying custom data streams
• summary