Wow, incredible support! Don't let anyone say you don't help out newbies.
I have the kids this weekend so I won't get a chance to work on this until late Sunday est. Thanks! On Dec 1, 2007 11:12 AM, Dan McMahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Werner Hoch wrote: > > > >> It seems strange to me that when there is an obvious, easy to > >> read for humans, easy for a computer to read, easy to generate > >> format, that everything except Spice uses .. that Spice > >> doesn't change to that format. > > > >> Every Spice variant has its own raw format. They should all be > >> thrown away. > > > > Yes, but I'd still would like to have a "standard" binary format. > > hdf5 would be nice. > > http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/products/hdf5/index.html > > How well to ascii output files scale when you want to write out 30,000 > node voltages and be able to pick out one to plot without it taking a > long time? I don't know the answer, but it seems like a binary format > could have advantages there. > > Like Werner, I've also wondered about hdf5 since there is a library > available for it and octave and I believe scilab both support it. My > weak understanding of hdf5 is that it would meet some of the > requirements for a simulator output file (you can write many variables a > sample at a time instead of .mat file where you write all the samples of > 1 variable followed by all the samples of another). It also appears > that it would not nearly be enough to just say "hdf5" but you'd have to > further specify the file format. > > In terms of commercial simulators, it is annoying as all get out that > they insist on wanting to use their own proprietary binary formats for > results because sometimes you really want to get the data into a > different tool. grrrrrr. This is clearly an area where geda can hands > down win just by documenting the file format used. > > -Dan > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user >
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