Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-05-19 Thread Arnaud Gardelein
I've added a link to oscopy, gsim and dataplot to the wiki: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements#draft4a_new_plotting_application Thanks Werner! Here is the new the homepage of oscopy: http://somewhere-in-the-space.no-ip.org/wiki/doku.php?id=oscopy Arnaud.

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-04-03 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi Arnoud and all, On Samstag, 13. März 2010, Arnaud Gardelein wrote: The question of integrating into gschem a simulator (namely gnucap) was recently discussed here. With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page:

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-20 Thread John Griessen
Arnaud Gardelein wrote: Would you think a GUI layout similar to digital oscilloscope would help, I mean having a graphical menu on the side of the graph to access those functions ? Sure, that would be welcomed by experienced and newbie alike. It's good form to allow menus to be customized or

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-18 Thread Dave McGuire
On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Dan McMahill wrote: I spend a *lot* of time looking at simulator output and some of the things which are used over and over again are easy interactive zoom in/out, panning at a fixed zoom, putting cursors on waveforms that will lock onto the actual datapoints,

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-17 Thread John Griessen
Ivan Stankovic wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:47:05PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: Al wants more info than you get with SPICE netlist formats. So Verilog-ams level of function is possible. While we're at it, was there a consensus on using verilog-ams as the format of choice for Al's

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread r
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:58 AM, kai-martin knaak grace has them all and more. It doesn't support waveform formats produced by popular analog and digital simulators. It doesn't make it easy to browse a (sometimes very large) signal database, select signals and quickly apply some common

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread Dan McMahill
kai-martin knaak wrote: [ctrl + ] for zoom, [ctrl - ] for unzoom. panning at a fixed zoom, a) left mouse butten click'n drag in both directions b) scrollwheel vertical, ctrl+scrollwheel horizontal c) drag dedicated scrollbars putting cursors on waveforms that will lock onto the actual

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:51:51 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: something must be broken with my grace-5.1.22 install because none of this works for me. This is probably because I use grace 6, aka v5.99.1 The versioning system sounds familiar to pcb users ;-) ---(kaimartin)--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread Dan McMahill
kai-martin knaak wrote: Dan McMahill wrote: So I'd say that especially in the opensource area, a good waveform viewer is not reinventing the wheel. It is time to make a round one instead of the existing square ones! IMHO, you underestimate the effort to get were grace and gnuplot already

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread John Griessen
Dan McMahill wrote: I'll have to try out oscopy and it looks to me like they really are not reinventing everything from scratch anyway. Between dbus for IPC and matplotlib for graphics and python for a language, it looks like there is a lot done already. Seems like matplotlib is full of the

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread Ivan Stankovic
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:47:05PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: So, have you done some translation from gschem primitives to gnucap native format? Or is it just gnetlist spice-sdb backend to gnucap native format? It's the latter, that way was much easier. Al wants more info than you get

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread John Doty
On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Ivan Stankovic wrote: While we're at it, was there a consensus on using verilog-ams as the format of choice for Al's translation system? The format has to have a way to represent graphics. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread Steven Michalske
On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:00 PM, John Doty wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Ivan Stankovic wrote: While we're at it, was there a consensus on using verilog-ams as the format of choice for Al's translation system? The format has to have a way to represent graphics. How about embedded

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread John Doty
On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Steven Michalske wrote: On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:00 PM, John Doty wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Ivan Stankovic wrote: While we're at it, was there a consensus on using verilog-ams as the format of choice for Al's translation system? The format has to

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread John Doty
On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:34 AM, John Doty wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Steven Michalske wrote: On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:00 PM, John Doty wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Ivan Stankovic wrote: While we're at it, was there a consensus on using verilog-ams as the format of choice

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread Steven Michalske
On Mar 16, 2010, at 4:34 PM, John Doty wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Steven Michalske wrote: On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:00 PM, John Doty wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Ivan Stankovic wrote: While we're at it, was there a consensus on using verilog-ams as the format of choice

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-16 Thread al davis
On Monday 15 March 2010, Dave McGuire wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements IMHO, there are

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Bob Paddock
unless I'm missing some key feature of gnuplot and grace, they stink for plotting simulator output. I spend a *lot* of time looking at simulator output and some of the things which are used over and over again are easy interactive zoom in/out, panning at a fixed zoom, putting cursors on

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Dave McGuire
On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements IMHO, there are already very mature open source data plotters out there.

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread John Griessen
Dan McMahill wrote: Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:34:17 +0100, Arnaud Gardelein wrote: With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements IMHO, there are

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread John Griessen
Dave McGuire wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: I spend a *lot* of time looking at simulator output and some of the things which are used over and over again are easy interactive zoom in/out, panning at a fixed zoom, putting cursors on waveforms that will lock onto the

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Ivan Stankovic
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:23:02AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: Dave McGuire wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: I spend a *lot* of time looking at simulator output and some of the things which are used over and over again are easy interactive zoom in/out, panning at a

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread John Griessen
Ivan Stankovic wrote: The basic idea in lame ASCII art: gschem (schematic) simulator X --- output X \ | |--- oscopy \-- simulator Y --- output Y / The simulator

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Jared Casper
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:44 PM, John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com wrote: Al Davis has been asking for a translator that is external so progress can be made soon and not have to rewrite gschem.  What is the plugin status of gschem? Is it anything like pcb's plugin writing? Here's what Al

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Ivan Stankovic
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:44:05PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: Ivan Stankovic wrote: Within gschem, we could support various simulator-specific flows by having custom menus that bring up nice GTK dialogs with additional simulator options etc. The beauty of all this is that most of it doesn't

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Arnaud Gardelein
Le dimanche 14 mars 2010 à 12:56 +, Kai-Martin Knaak a écrit : IMHO, there are already very mature open source data plotters out there. Think gnuplot, or grace. What is the rationale in rolling your own? In the introduction of the manual, there is some rationale. To sum it up, each data

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread John Griessen
Ivan Stankovic wrote: Here's what Al has been asking for in outline form: http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/glue-projects Yes, that's exactly how it was done with oscopy. DBUS proved actually very useful and simple to work with. So, have you done some translation from gschem primitives to

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Dan McMahill
Geoff Swan wrote: I've seen commercial tools that have some predefined grids like rectangular, polar, smith but so far none have taken it to the next level of letting you add custom ones or the custom readout. Just in case you missed it - qucs has a number of plotting outputs including a Smith

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Dan McMahill
Dave McGuire wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements IMHO, there are already very mature open source data

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread DJ Delorie
IMHO there are three results in any project: 1. What you want 2. What you asked for 3. What you got Simulators are good for making sure #1 and #2 match (does your design do what you want?). Scopes are good for making sure #2 and #3 match (does the circuit function as designed?).

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread Steven Michalske
On Mar 15, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Dan McMahill wrote: Geoff Swan wrote: I've seen commercial tools that have some predefined grids like rectangular, polar, smith but so far none have taken it to the next level of letting you add custom ones or the custom readout. Just in case you missed it -

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-15 Thread kai-martin knaak
Dan McMahill wrote: IMHO, there are already very mature open source data plotters out there. Think gnuplot, or grace. What is the rationale in rolling your own? unless I'm missing some key feature of gnuplot and grace, they stink for plotting simulator output. I used grace quite a bit,

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:34:17 +0100, Arnaud Gardelein wrote: With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements IMHO, there are already very mature open source data plotters

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread Bob Paddock
IMHO, there are already very mature open source data plotters out there. Think gnuplot, or grace. There is also Ploticus: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/welcome.html Not as well known as the two you mention. It does a lot of different style graphs. Also better suited to use on web

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread John Griessen
Arnaud Gardelein wrote: Although far from being completed, oscopy support running a netlister and a simulator, I mean there is a menu option FileRun netlister and simulate... where you can specify which command to use. It run both, and then automagically update the loaded signals, recursively

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread John Griessen
I did not have all the dependencies installed. Will do that and report to gEDA list when I get it. John ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread Ivan Stankovic
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 01:27:39PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: A python scripted wave viewer seems good to me. I couldn't get it to run yet though... ./oscopy_ui.py [1] 31087 j...@toolbench:/moredata/src-geda-others/oscopy$ Traceback (most recent call last): File ./oscopy_ui.py, line

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread Dan McMahill
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:34:17 +0100, Arnaud Gardelein wrote: With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements IMHO, there are already very mature

Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-14 Thread Geoff Swan
I've seen commercial tools that have some predefined grids like rectangular, polar, smith but so far none have taken it to the next level of letting you add custom ones or the custom readout. Just in case you missed it - qucs has a number of plotting outputs including a Smith chart. I don't

gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

2010-03-13 Thread Arnaud Gardelein
The question of integrating into gschem a simulator (namely gnucap) was recently discussed here. With the help of Ivan I'm writing a viewer, oscopy (http://repo.or.cz/w/oscopy.git) based draft #4 of this page: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:data_plotting_improvements Although far from being