Re: gEDA-user: On integrating simulator in gschem

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. 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 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, having delta cursors, and  
> having a flexible and *extensible* waveform calculator.  The types  
> of postprocessing range from the very simple (out_plus - out-minus)  
> to more complex but standard like an fft to fairly complex custom  
> functions.

  Good heavens.  That's the sort of stuff I do with a digitizing  
oscilloscope.  I could never imagine doing that with simulator output.

  But perhaps it's just too early in the morning. ;)

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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