gEDA-dev: SPICE rawwaveform file

[Dan McMahill]

Anthony J Bybell wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, michel agoyan wrote:
> 
>> In fact I'm looking for a binary format because it is more compact than
>> a text file.
>> I simple have an huge amount of waveforms to deal with coming from a
>> digital scope.
>> I want to process them  (average correlation ...) and write the results
>> using a format
>> that is compact and that allows the use of waveform viewer such as gwave.
> 
> What exactly is "a huge amount" of waveforms?  As long as an individual
> sim run isn't something like 10GB, it should be manageable.

I can't speak for Michel, but in this discussion, when I've mentioned 
that a file format should scale to large amounts of data I had 10 Gb or 
so in mind.  However I was envisioning ending up with this amount by 
virtue of having lots and lots (10s of thousands) of waveforms in the 
data file.  So the ability to pick out one of them efficiently and 
without parsing all 10 Gb is important.

-Dan