Re: [Xcircuit-dev] XSPICE output possible?

[Svenn A. B. <sv...@bj...>]

On Friday 03 March 2006 22:22, R. Timothy Edwards wrote:
> Dear Svenn,
>
> > Tim, I would never expect that a simple complaint from me would make you
> > change from postscript to, say XML. For single-page documentation nothi=
ng
> > beats xcircuit in get-things-done speed.
>
> I don't know XML, which would be the main impediment, though I have thoug=
ht
> about using Tcl as an output format; =A0to load, you just source the Tcl
> file, so that part is already done.

I really don't know much more about XML than the fact that it is possible t=
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define a marked-up storage format which can be flat or hierarchical. The=20
biggest power of XML is that there are parsers available for all programmin=
g=20
languages you use in your tools. There is also a downside, and that is the=
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overhead of storing a design as ascii with additional tags.

The typical minimalistic idea of sourcing data as tcl scripts is cool for a=
ll=20
use in tcl. Problem is to get that data into other programs.

I have serious problem with SIGSEV on Solaris for the time being. I don't g=
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any useful data from hooking up to gdb. Xcircuit just dies. I have to use 3=
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something to get things done.

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Svenn