Simple Data Format

(SDF File)

Simple Data Format or SDF is a platform-independent, precision-preserving binary data I/O format capable of handling large, multi-dimensional arrays. It was written by George H. Fisher, a researcher at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley, and released under the GNU General Public License.

See also

• The Simple Data Format Manifesto
• A .pdf Introduction to SDF
• SDF packages, each release as a tarball