Specification and system requirements

More information is available by downloading CSM's documentation.

Tool	Overview
Search-match	Unique search method taking profile data, peak data or a combination of the two.
Card retrieval	Boolean card retrieval.
Card display	Instant display of full PDF2 information on any material.
Peak search	Powerful integrated peak-search with graphical peak list editing.
Report writing	Automatically produced reports within the program. Also interfaces with Microsoft Word
Powder simulation	Full profile single and multi-phase powder patterns from any material in the database.
User database	Build and search user database.
Graphing	Flexible graph tool, which may be embedded in reports and other documents.

System requirements

CSM requires a PC running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4 or better, 2000 or XP. A 200 MHz machine with 64 Mb of memory is recommended, although the program will function on a lower specification computer. CSM's on-line help system uses components from the Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you do not have this installed on your machine you may install the required components from the CSM installation CD. The installation occupies approximately 5 Mb of disk space, and a further 50 Mb are required for index files.

Powder Diffraction File

CSM requires one of the International Centre for Diffraction Data's PDF databases. CSM-3 is fully compatible with both the old format PDF-2 and the new RDB format databases PDF-2 Release 2005, PDF-4 and PDF-4+.