d3-wave

D3.js based wave (signal) visualizer

This library renders signal dumps into specified svg. (GTKWave for javascript)

Use npm install d3-wave --save to install this library and save it to your package.json file. Installation from git for developers:

npm install            # normal dependencies
npm install --only=dev # developement only dedpendencies
npm run-script build   # build dist js
npm test               # run tests

python -m http.server  # run http server in root directory in order to open the examples in ./examples directory

Features

• Vertical scrolling and zoom in time domain
• Tree based signal hierarchy view (collapsable)
• Signal tree scrollbar with preview
• Drag-and-drop/key based signal organization
• Renderers for int, str, bit, enum and bit vector values (user extendible)
• Dynamic time unit on x-axis
• Responsive design
• Arbitrary integer values

Input JSON format

Signal record

{ "name": "<signal name>",
  "type": {"name": "<vcd signal type>",
           "width": "<bit width of signal (integer)>"},
  "data": ["<data records>"],      // optionally
  "children": ["<signal recors>"], // optionally, if children should be collapsed by default use _children
}

Data record format

["<time (number)>", "<value (string, format dependent on datatype)>"]

There is a special type with name "struct" Signal with this name has stored another signal records in it's data.

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