[Savannah-register-public] [task #5872] Submission of Wavescope

[Puneet Goel]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5872>

                 Summary: Submission of Wavescope
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: puneet
            Submitted on: Thursday 09/07/2006 at 05:07
         Should Start On: Thursday 09/07/2006 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sunday 09/17/2006 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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== REGISTRATION DETAILS ==

Full Name:
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  *Wavescope*

System Group Name:
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  *wavescope*

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  This is a proposal for a VCD file parser and viewer/analyzer.

Introduction
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VCD is the popular format for dumping waveforms from hardware simulation
tools. VCD stands for Vector Change Dump. The format of the VCD file is part
of the IEEE verilog standard, and hence it is in the public domain.

Existing popular freeware VCD viewers include ....
1) gtkwave http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/
2) dinotrace http://www.veripool.com/dinotrace/

Why Another Viewer
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Though gtkwave and dinotrace both provide a decent GUI, none of these support
a scripting interface. And with my 10 years of industry experiance in hardware
design and verification, I know a scripting interface would be extremely
useful for hardware debugging.

So what I am proposing is not just a VCD file viewer, it will have  scripting
interface for analyzing the waves using scheme programming language (guile).

Current Status
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I have a working VCD parser (in C) and supporting scheme scripts. Right now
the parser generates a pure scheme data-structure. The memory foot-print
needs to be worked upon and I plan to use SMOBS to have a more memory
efficient internal data representation for the waveforms.

I have the initial version of the source-code, but I do not have any web
address for the same. I can upload it as soon as you provide me a project
space. Or I can send it to you by email (for approval).

I plan to later provide a GUI using gnome-guile bindings.

Other Software Required:
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  GCC, Automake, Autoconf, Guile, gnome-guile-platform








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