Re: [ng-spice-devel] ACS with the "free" Borland compiler
howdy. i'm a new subscriber to these mailing lists, so forgive
(and educate) me if my notions have been discussed here before.
this may be to far fetched, but, having written many waveform
viewers, a really, really usefull feature would be to have
the waveform viewer linked to the simulator in such a fashion
that the .raw (or .tr0) file could contain restartable snapshots
of the simulation. then, when the waveform viewer attempts
to use data between these restartable snapshots, the linked in
simulator starts back up and provides the intermediate data,
via resimulation from the most immediate previous snapshot.
this allows the .raw file to be much, much smaller for large
simulations (eg, a 24hr pll simulation may be otherwise unviewable
if all data is retained), and potentially speeds up viewing of
long simulation results dramatically.
of course, to minimize problems with subsequent changes to
the simulator, or input data, both the simulator, and the
entire simulation input deck need to be captured, preferably
in the (monolithic) results file. call this ~4mby.
this would be a small price to pay for simulation results files
that would otherwise be intractably large.
lastly, such a mechanism would want to be explictly enabled
by the user, otherwise maintaining todays current results
paradigm.
thanks for listening.
comments ?
-elh
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