DDView 2010 - Purchase DDView 2010

DDView 2010, ICDD’s retrieval and viewing software, is designed to make PDF-2 accessible as a stand-alone database operating in a Windows® environment. DDView provides display, search and data filtering capabilities for the PDF-2 database. Many customers using vendor search/match software choose to purchase DDView as well, in order to perform further analyses. Each year, DDView is updated to reflect annual changes in the database. Licensing DDView is the best way to stay current with database changes and it strongly complements other viewing and data analysis software. The expanded list of features and capabilities for Release 2010 are listed here (.pdf).

More Data Mining!

In 2010, we expanded the data mining capability of DDView again by increasing the number of display fields from 24 to 40! The DDView display fields work interactively with the 50 searches to provide a wide range of data mining choices.

DDView allows displayed data to be graphed and plotted. Several searches can be combined using the “History” feature in DDView and the data can be tabulated, sorted and graphed by user selection. For those doing quantitative analysis, tabulations of I/Ic are now available and can be compared to the entry’s quality mark and status so that the best reference can be selected for the analysis.

New features

• PDF Entry Display: Added 16 new display fields for an increase from 24 to 40
• Search Classification: Crystal data axial ratio search
• Capabilities: Kα₂ profile stripping
• PDF Entry Display: Author’s cell axial ratio

ICDD Suite 2010 - Purchase ICDD Suite

DDView with SIeve

ICDD SUITE offers the viewing software that you need, along with search indexing software that you want. Although available on one CD, DDView and SIeve are licensed separately. SIeve is available only in the ICDD SUITE, which offers licensing for both DDView and SIeve. Both DDView 2010 and SIeve 2010 are designed to work with PDF-2 Release 2010. Customers updating their PDF-2 must update their software to match the release year update.

Multiyear pricing is available for the ICDD SUITE when purchasing multiyear licenses for PDF-2.

SIeve 2010

SIeve, ICDD’s search indexing software for the PDF-2 product line, provides rapid searching and identification of materials using highly automated Hanawalt, Fink and Long 8 searches. SIeve takes advantage of the remarkable computing power of modern PCs to rapidly perform searches on hundreds of thousands of data entries.

SIeve features automatic rotation of the 3 strongest lines (Hanawalt) or the 8 longest of the strongest lines (Fink) or the 8 longest lines (Long 8) to look for matches that exhibit the best Goodness of Match (GOM). The automatic rotations can be switched on/off in Preferences. For 2010, the GOM can be weighted or unweighted to better equilibrate scoring of matches with entries having larger and smaller numbers of peaks. The “Pattern GOM” compares all lines in the unknown pattern against all lines in the reference pattern(s). The SIeve display allows a comparison between the standard GOM and the pattern GOM. SIeve works with files containing a list of peaks (d-spacing/2-theta and intensity pairs) or files containing full experimental data (2-theta and intensity). A flexible text importer can read a wide variety of input files. SIeve is linked with global searches and Search Preferences from DDView allowing users to custom define a SIeve input filter based on any of the 50 search method classes or combinations thereof. The results of SIeve can also be integrated into search criteria in DDView.

For 2010, the use of common and userdefined subfile filters in SIeve has been facilitated by a simple selection box that appears once input data have been prepared for searching. Common subfile filters include Primary Patterns, Mineral Related Patterns, and Common Phases. In addition, the user can create any number of filters based on DDView’s extensive data mining capabilities. The use of these filters effectively focuses the search/match power of SIeve on relevant PDF entries based on supplemental or categorical knowledge of the specimen being analyzed. The user even has the ability to change these filters, whether they are elemental, structural, or categorical in nature, after the major phases have been identified to facilitate minor and trace phase searches on the residual pattern.

As with any automated search/match program, the user has the final word on the correctness of a potential match. With SIeve, the user may accept one or more of the initial proposed matches based on the GOM score, the line-by-line fit, and the user’s knowledge of the sample origin. Once accepted, SIeve automatically subtracts this phase(s) from the input data and searches the database again for identification of additional phases in the residual pattern. With well-resolved data, identification of >10 phases in a multicomponent mixture may be reasonably accomplished. SIeve is available only in the ICDD SUITE. SIeve, a plug-in to DDView, is licensed for an additional cost. It activates for a free 30-day trial period or until the product is registered.

Featuring

• Copy/paste operations from other programs (i.e., Microsoft® Excel®) for SIeve data entry
• User specified formatting for SIeve results table is now saved for future sessions
• Improved user interactions for selecting SIeve match candidates
• Import full experimental data for SIeve
• Full pattern preview, background removal, smoothing, Kα₂ profile stripping, and peak finding
• Automatic SIeve data import for known file types

Pricing is available for multiyear & site licenses

Special pricing is available for PDF-2 users to convert to the PDF-4 format.

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