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Subject: ( ESNUG 329 #20 ) Timing Diagram Editors Other Than Chronology's
> Are you aware of any good timing diagram tools other than Chronology's?
> I just want to draw nice timing diagrams for documentation purposes.
>
> - Bruce Nepple
> Imagenation
From: Philip Brown <phil@sei.com>
We use the Synapticad tool (Timing diagrammer or Waveformer). My engineers
love it. And it is cheap. The NT version has a much better GUI than the X
version, but otherwise it is very very easy to use, and produces great
diagrams. It exports to Frame, Word and various image formats. Highly
recommended.
- Phil Brown
SEI
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From: Ajoy Aswadhati <ajoy@lucidsolutions.com>
Hi John,
I have used Timing Diagrammer from Synapticad a couple of years back. It
will do exactly what Bruce wants. He can download an eval copy from
<http://www.syncad.com>
The name of the tool is waveformer pro.
- Ajoy Aswadhati
Lucid Solutions
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From: Frank Emnett <frank@aiec.com>
John,
We've been evaluating Datasheet Pro from Synapticad. Their NT version has
many of the same capabilities in terms of defining timing relationships,
plus allows OLE embedding of your timing diagrams in Microsoft Word, etc.,
documents. This makes maintaining large numbers of timing diagrams as
part of a single spec much less of a hassle.
They also support Solaris and HP-UX (haven't looked at either of these).
There are many analysis features also, which is really overkill for our
needs, which seem similar to yours. If you're looking for something cheaper
and simpler, I hope you have better luck than I did in my search, which
turned up empty. Seems like some small software shop who came up with a
simple timing diagram editor (for documentation only, no analysis) which
was a few hundred bucks could sell a reasonable number of them.
- Frank Emnett
Automotive Integrated Electronics Corp. Phoenix, AZ
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From: Jay Dowling <jay@acut.com>
waveformer pro by synapitcad is a nice waveform editor that has a lot of
bonus stuff, like automatic test bench output and a verilog simulator
- Jay Dowling
CiMatrix Nashua, NH
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