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. -- Svenn
