Welcome to asammdf’s documentation!

asammdf is a fast parser and editor for ASAM (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems) MDF (Measurement Data Format) files.

asammdf supports MDF versions 2 (.dat), 3 (.mdf) and 4 (.mf4).

asammdf works on Python >= 3.10 (for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 see the 4.x.y releases)

• Introduction
  • Project goals
  • Features
  • Major features not implemented (yet)
  • Dependencies
  • Installation
  • Contributing & Support
    • Contributors
• API
  • MDF
    • MDF
      • MDF.cleanup_timestamps()
      • MDF.concatenate()
      • MDF.configure()
      • MDF.convert()
      • MDF.cut()
      • MDF.export()
      • MDF.extract_bus_logging()
      • MDF.filter()
      • MDF.get_group()
      • MDF.iter_channels()
      • MDF.iter_get()
      • MDF.iter_groups()
      • MDF.iter_to_dataframe()
      • MDF.master_using_raster()
      • MDF.resample()
      • MDF.scramble()
      • MDF.search()
      • MDF.select()
      • MDF.stack()
      • MDF.start_time
      • MDF.to_dataframe()
      • MDF.whereis()
  • MDF3
    • MDF version 2 & 3 blocks
      • Channel Class
      • ChannelConversion Class
      • ChannelDependency Class
      • ChannelExtension Class
      • ChannelGroup Class
      • DataGroup Class
      • FileIdentificationBlock Class
      • HeaderBlock Class
      • ProgramBlock Class
      • TextBlock Class
      • TriggerBlock Class
  • MDF4
    • MDF version 4 blocks
      • AttachmentBlock Class
      • Channel Class
      • ChannelConversion Class
      • ChannelGroup Class
      • DataGroup Class
      • DataList Class
      • DataBlock Class
      • FileIdentificationBlock Class
      • HeaderBlock Class
      • SourceInformation Class
      • FileHistory Class
      • TextBlock Class
      • EventBlock Class
  • Signal
    • Signal
      • Signal.astype()
      • Signal.copy()
      • Signal.cut()
      • Signal.extend()
      • Signal.interp()
      • Signal.physical()
      • Signal.plot()
      • Signal.raw()
      • Signal.scaled()
      • Signal.validate()
• Bus logging
• Tips
  • Selective channel loading
  • Data coupling
  • Chunked data access
  • Optimized methods
  • Faster file loading
    • Skip XML parsing for MDF4 files
• Examples
  • Working with MDF
  • Working with Signal
  • MF4 demo file generator
• Benchmarks
  • Test setup
    • Dependencies
    • Usage
  • x64 Python results
    • Graphical results
• GUI
  • General shortcuts
  • Menu
    • File
    • Mode
    • Settings
    • Plot
  • Single files
    • Layout elements
      • 1. Opened files tabs
      • 2. Channel tree display mode
      • 3. Complete channels tree
      • 4. Command buttons
      • 5. Windows area
      • 6. Numeric window
      • 7. Plot window
      • 8. Tabular window
      • 9. File operations
      • 10. CAN/LIN/FlexRay Bus Trace
      • 11. Drag & Drop
  • Batch processing
  • Comparison
• Functions manager view
  • Function manager dialog
  • Python function rules
  • Virtual channel dialog
  • Example functions
    • Average of 3 channels
    • Channel clipping
    • Grey code to decimal
    • Maximum of 3 channels
    • rpm to rad/s
    • gradient

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page