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Merlin II Protocol Analyzer User’s Manual
CATC
SW Version 2.50
The following is the WAVE file format that is used by the 'Export Audio 
Streams' functionality to generate the audio files. The right-most column 
describes the data as being put by the CATC Bluetooth analyzer application. 
Field Name
Endian
File 
Offset
Field Size
Field Description
CATC Data
ChunkID
Big
0
4
Contains the letters 
"RIFF" in ASCII form 
(0x52494646 big-endian 
form).
RIFF stands for 
"Resource Interchange 
File Format."
"RIFF"
ChunkSize
Little
4
4
36 + SubChunk2Size, or 
more precisely:
4 + (8 + SubChunk1Size) 
+ (8 + SubChunk2Size)
This is the size of the 
entire file in bytes minus 
8 bytes for the two fields 
not included in this 
count: ChunkID and 
ChunkSize.
Calculated when 
file is created.
Format
Big
8
4
Contains the letters 
"WAVE" (0x57415645 
big-endian form).
“WAVE”
Field Name
Endian
File 
Offset
Field Size
Field Description
CATC Data
Subchunk1ID
Big
12
4
Contains the letters "fmt" 
(0x666d7420 big-endian 
form).
‘f’, ‘m’, ‘t’, ‘’
Subchunk1Size
Little
16
4
16 for PCM. This is the 
size of the rest of the 
Subchunk, which follows 
this number.
0x12
AudioFormat
Little
20
2
PCM = 1 (i.e. Linear 
quantization)
Values other than 1 
indicate some form of 
compression.
1
NumChannels
Little
22
2
Mono = 1, Stereo = 2, 
etc.
Num of actual 
channels as 
selected by the 
user: 1 or 2.
