The human-readable, plain-text version of STDF. It uses delimiters like the pipe character (
While specialized yield management software (YMS) like PDF Solutions or YieldHUB prefer STDF, many smaller statistical tools, custom Python scripts, and Excel macros are built to parse ATDF. Converting to ATDF democratizes the data, allowing process engineers who may not have expensive commercial software to perform their own analysis. stdf to atdf converter