For preservation, file formats matter just as much as the storage medium.

When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

The Standard Test Data Format (STDF), a workhorse data format used to pull test results data from automated test equipment, is running out of steam after 35 years. It is unable to keep up with the ...

Head-related transfer functions (HRTF) —which I covered in my last column— are essential to creating a realistic immersive (or 3D) audio experience over headphones. HRTFs can be determined in a ...

Tell the truth, now. When you see a new worksheet arrive in your Inbox, your pulse doesn’t exactly quicken, does it? I’m guessing that you don’t lean forward in your chair, eager to open the file and ...

The data size generated by curvilinear masks could impact turnaround time (TAT) for photomask production and hence the adoption of curvilinear masks. In a previous blog on curvilinear masks, our panel ...

Pre-local operating units (pre-LOUs) have been given until August 19 to adopt a new common data file format for the pre-legal entity identifiers (pre-LEIs) and reference data they issue. The technical ...