Re: gEDA: python frontend for ngspice

[Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn-at-NOSPAMbjerkem_dot_de>]

On Saturday 13 May 2006 02:47, al davis wrote:
> Closed formats: none.  It is contrary to the basic concepts of
> free/open-source to support closed formats.  Once they are
> supported, they are no longer really closed.  Unless someone
> pays me the market rate to do it, I will not support closed
> formats.

If I would give an advice I would support the ascii wsf file format from 
Cadence as this would make it possible to use some commercial waveform 
viewers.

> > A
> > workaround could be to write data on one of the formats that
> > the commercial tools support? I would really like to see
> > something like CosmoScope from Synopsys in a GNU license.
>
> What's CosmoScope?  Anything like gwave?  If you define it,
> maybe someone here will attempt to do it.

CosmoScope is a waveform viewer currently from Synopsys. It can be scripted in 
tcl/tk.

> > 
> > That tool can read hspice tr0, fsdb and some other formats.
>
> The best way to handle lots of formats is with translation
> tools.  I recommend "awk" as the programming language in which
> to write these tools.

The only advantage of awk has been superseeded by the fact that there are now 
awk, gawk, nawk, mawk. I recomend Tcl.

>
> > I
> > think a good GNU waveform viewer is something missed long.
>
> I agree.  I think the best we have is gwave.

With all respect, this tool utilize guile, which make it almost impossible to 
install. 

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Svenn