On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:17:40 -0500, Dan McMahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone worked on or know of a netlist -> schematic translator? > > I'm looking for something which might help visualize the network > produced by a tool which generates a netlist but no schematic.
Nothing pre-made springs to mind (I looked around for something like this about a year ago) but if you aren't concerned with actually editing the network afterwards, you might take a look at the graphviz tools. http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/ You could then write a script to translate your netlist format into something like this: graph my_graph { net1_U2_pin3 -- net1_U2_pin4 -- net1_U2_pin5; } and process it with 'neato'. Come to think of it, you will probably have to use the 'subgraph' feature to organize the nets coming out of components. Also, depending on how important bus/net names are to understanding the structure, you may need labels on net segments, etc. -- - Charles Lepple
