IEC 60469:2013提供了与跃迁、脉冲和相关波形有关的术语的定义，并提供了用于测量其参数的技术和程序的定义和描述。本标准中考虑的波形是进行多次转换并且在转换之间的时间间隔内保持相对恒定的波形。本标准适用的信号及其波形包括但不限于: -数字通信、数据通信和计算； -研究短暂的生物、宇宙学和物理事件； -以及在各种工业、商业和消费应用中遇到和使用的电脉冲、化学脉冲和热脉冲。本标准不适用于正弦变化或其他连续-变化的信号及其波形。本标准的目的是促进关于跃迁、脉冲和相关波形参数以及测量它们的技术和程序的准确和精确的通信。IEC 60469:2013结合了IEC 60469-1和IEC 60469-2的内容。IEC 60469-1涉及用于描述波形参数的术语和定义，IEC 60469-2描述了波形测量过程。其他技术修订包括术语更新、错误校正、用于计算脉冲参数值的算法添加以及用于计算状态电平的新开发方法的添加。对定义的更改包括添加新的术语和定义、删除未使用的术语和定义、扩展不推荐使用的术语列表以及更新和修改现有定义。

IEC 60469:2013 provides definitions of terms pertaining to transitions, pulses, and related waveforms and provides definitions and descriptions of techniques and procedures for measuring their parameters. The waveforms considered in this standard are those that make a number of transitions and that remain relatively constant in the time intervals between transitions. Signals and their waveforms for which this standard apply include but are not limited to those used in:
- digital communications, data communications, and computing;
- studies of transient biological, cosmological, and physical events;
- and electrical, chemical, and thermal pulses encountered and used in a variety of industrial, commercial, and consumer applications. This standard does not apply to sinusoidally-varying or other continuously-varying signals and their waveforms. The object of this standard is to facilitate accurate and precise communication concerning parameters of transitions, pulses, and related waveforms and the techniques and procedures for measuring them. IEC 60469:2013 combine the contents of IEC 60469-1 and IEC 60469-2. IEC 60469-1 dealt with terms and definitions for describing waveform parameters and IEC 60469-2 described the waveform measurement process. Other technical revisions include updating of terminology, errors correction, algorithms addition for computing values of pulse parameters, and addition of a newly-developed method for computing state levels. Changes to the definitions include adding new terms and definitions, deleting unused terms and definitions, expanding the list of deprecated terms, and updating and modifying existing definitions.