jensting@diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) (03/27/90)
Common Simulation Data Format What is that ?? The circuit analysis program PSPICE comes with a graphics viewing program PROBE. The PROBE program accepts data as -1 Binary format or -2 ASCCI text in CSDF format. In the PROBE section of the PSPICE manual it goes ".. create a text-format file using the Common Simulator Data Format (CSDF), which has been proposed as a standard format for results from simulation programs." My question is simply WHAT IS CSDF, where can I find descriptions of the format ? My reason for asking is that I'm assisting in the port of an other circuit analysis program (from IBM mainframe to PC), and need graphics viewing. Using PROBE seems a farily simple way of achieving this (PROBE is distributed as part of a free demo-version of PSPICE, thus I hope to get out of trouble with licensing..). Initial experiments (using a PSPICE generated CSDF format file) indicates that the format is VERY strict, not allowing leading zeros in the hex numbers used as indexes, different floating point format (4 significant digits wanted), extra spaces or anything. Thanks in advance Jens -- jensting@diku.dk is Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Research Assistent at DIKU Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O