How to plot .bin file?

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Uspike
Uspike on 27 Jun 2015
Edited: Uspike on 6 Aug 2015
Hi,
I am new for MatLab. I have a .bin file which I got from Oscilloscope. I need to Read the file, Plot and then do FFT on the date. Could anyone please explain me?
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 27 Jun 2015
The first thing you need to do is research the exact file format of the .bin file. There is no standard for how .bin files are laid out: .bin as a suffix gets used for any arbitrary binary format.
For example is there one time-stamp for every sample, or is there a header giving the first time and the interval between samples? Is the time represented in as a string in M/D/YY H:MM:s.f format such as 6/23/15 2:07:11.2, or is it represented as a 128 bit count of nanoseconds since August 18, 1947 14:00:00 PDT (the official incorporation day of Hewlett-Packard)? Are the voltages represented with 8 bit values in "Bias 140" format (that is, 140 represents 0, 141 represents 0 + 1/128, 139 represents 0 - 1/128) ? And so on. The exact structure of the file needs to be known before it can be read.

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 27 Jun 2015
Use fread function to read your file and fft function to calculate the fft
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Uspike
Uspike on 27 Jun 2015
Thanks for the swift reply. Can you please elaborate. I am so new to matlab and its tough for me to understand.

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