easter egg . plot a cadence waveform to the tektronix 4014 e

[fogh]

Hi All,

grey weather here for easter, so I made a SKILL toy. It will plot a
waveform to the xterm Tek window. I had always wondered what this xterm
"tek" mode was. I tried to plot families too, but that doesn t work. It
should work OK if you plot a real valued waveform (probably fails on AC
or PSS freq domain 's complex waves).


;; fun with xterm's tektronix 4014 emulator
;; for a phosphor alike color, "xterm -fg green -bg black"
;; run icfb from the xterm , load this file
;; open some simulation result, browse, put the a real wave expression
in the clipboard
;; enter in CIW:
;; TKplotwave( <paste wave expression> )
;;voila.

/*
#get info on terminal capabilities and control codes
man ascii
man console_codes
man reset
man termcap
man terminfo
man tic
man xterm
gv /usr/share/doc/x*doc*.?/xterm/ctlseqs.PS.gz
less $(locate tek.trm) #or use google/gnuplot source
wget http://www.tug.org/cgi-bin/dirarchive/tex-archive/dviware/dvgt.tgz
; tar xzvf dvgt.tgz; less dvgt/dvgt/src/tek4010*
mozilla http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html
mozilla http://www.update.uu.se/~fstx/1/tekscope/
wget http://vt100.net/tektronix/4014-um/4014-um.pdf
#read from page 92 , appendix G
######## try it out
#ECMA-48 Set Graphics Rendition
echo -en "\033[32m"
echo -en "\033[40m"

#SGR code ; inverse video
echo -e "\033[7m oediv esrever \033[0m"

#Digital Equipment Corp. private mode set
##enter tektronix
echo -en "\033[?38h"

###### what to do
#-send "enter tek mode ; clear & init " control codes
#-send graph commands from a dfII waveform

*/
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;tek4010 definitions
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
ESC="\033"
TK='(nil)

TK->entertek="\033[?38h" ; esc [ ? 38 h
TK->reset="\033[?38l" ; esc [ ? 38 l
TK->page="\033\014" ;esc ff

TK->alpha="\037" ; ascii US , text mode
TK->graph="\035" ; ascii GS , graphic mode
TK->point="\034" ; ascii FS , point plot mode
TK->incplot="\036" ; ascii RS , incremental plot mode

TK->xmax=1024
TK->ymax=780
TK->xlast=TK->xmax-1
TK->ylast=TK->ymax-1
TK->vchar=25
TK->hchar=14
TK->vtic=TK->htic=11
TK->hx=TK->hy=0x20
TK->lx=0x40
TK->ly=0x60
;TK->lower5= 2**5 - 1
TK->lower5=0b11111
TK->upper5=TK->lower5<<5

TK->port=outfile("/dev/stdin")

TK->linetypes = "`abcdhijkl"
TK->last_vt_linetype = nil ;;this is a global. keeps state info: nil is
uninitialised, 0 to 9 is build-in line type

procedure(TKsnd(x)
;fprintf(TK->port "%s\n" x )
fprintf(TK->port "%s" x )
drain(TK->port)
)
procedure(TKascTostr(asc)
;;sending a beep
;;fprintf(outfile("/dev/stdout") "%s\n"
symbolToString(intToChar(charToInt(stringToSymbol("\007") ))))
symbolToString(intToChar(asc))
)

procedure( TKvector(x y)
;; (0 0) is lowerleft ; x is horizontal
TKsnd( strcat(
TKascTostr(TK->hy | (y & TK->upper5) >> 5)
TKascTostr(TK->ly | (y & TK->lower5))
TKascTostr(TK->hx | (x & TK->upper5) >> 5)
TKascTostr(TK->lx | (x & TK->lower5))
))
)

procedure( TKmove(x y)
let(()
TKsnd(TK->graph)
TKvector(x y)
))

/* linetypes for VT-type terminals in tektronix emulator mode
0 `=solid, 1 a=fine dots, 2 b=short dashes, 3 c=dash dot,
4 d=long dash dot, 5 h=bold solid, 6 i=bold fine dots, 7 j=bold short
dashes,
8 k=bold dash dot, 9 l=bold long dash dot */
procedure( TKlinetype(linetype)
linetype = mod(linetype 10)
TKsnd(strcat(ESC getchar(TK->linetypes linetype+1)))
TK->last_vt_linetype = linetype
)

procedure( TKput_text(x, y, str)
let( (lt)
lt=TK->last_vt_linetype
TKlinetype(0)
TKmove(x, y - TK->vtic)
TKsnd(strcat(TK->alpha str))
TKlinetype(lt)
))

procedure(TK_xterm_tekinit()
;;green foreground black background, ansi codes.
TKsnd(strcat(ESC "[32m")) TKsnd(strcat(ESC "[40m"))
TKsnd(TK->reset)
TKsnd(TK->entertek)
;sh("sleep 1")
;hiRegTimer(
TKsnd(TK->page)
TKmove(0 0) ;;this also sets graph mode
TKlinetype(5) ;;this also sets the "initialised" flag
);proc


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;waveform definitions
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
procedure( TKplotwave(w)
let( (xmin xmax ymin ymax yspan xspan Tx Ty)

unless(TK->last_vt_linetype TK_xterm_tekinit() ) ;initialise if necessary

xmin=drGetElem(x=drGetWaveformXVec(w) 0)
xmax=drGetElem(x drVectorLength(x)-1 )
ymin=ymin(w) ymax=ymax(w)
xspan=1.0/(xmax-xmin) yspan=1.0/(ymax-ymin)

;;get first point
x=xmin
y=drGetElem(drGetWaveformYVec(w) 0)
Tx=round( TK->xlast*(x-xmin)*xspan )
Ty=round( TK->ylast*(y-ymin)*yspan )
;;TxPrev=Tx TyPrev=Ty
TKmove(Tx Ty)

;;loop through points
foreach( mapcar lXY artWaveformToList(w)
x=car(lXY) y=cadr(lXY)
Tx=round( TK->xlast*(x-xmin)*xspan )
Ty=round( TK->ylast*(y-ymin)*yspan )
;TKmove(Tx Ty)
TKvector(Tx Ty)
;TxPrev=Tx TyPrev=Ty
);foreach point
t
);let
);proc

procedure(TKplot(x)
cond(
(numberp(x) TKplotwave(artListToWaveform(list( list(x x) list(x x)))
) ) ;;
(drIsWaveform(x) TKplotwave(x) ) ;;
(famIsFamily(x) famMap('TKplot x ) ) ;;
);cond
);proc


/************************************************
procedure(TKX() ;;run examples
let(
nil
; (w l xl xv xrange urange F )
defmacro( l () load("TektronixPlot.il") )
; l
awvSetWaveformToolName( "awd" )

w=artListToWaveform('((0 0) (1 1) (2 4) (3 9)))
xl=linRg(-1 15 0.01)
xv=drCreateVec( 'double xl )
w=expr(x exp(x/3)*sin(5*x) xl)
;TKplotwave(w)

procedure(myfunc(u x) exp(x/(3*u))*sin(x*5*u) ) ;myfunc
xrange=linRg(-1 12 0.05)
urange=logRg(0.9 1.5 10)
VRL=;gives nil as second name
list(
list("U" urange )
list("X" xrange )
)
F=famFuncApply('myfunc VRL)
plot( F )
TKplot( F )

);let
);proc examples
************************************************/

 

[Andrew Beckett]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:41:19 -0500, fogh <adff@xs4all.nl> wrote:

Hi All,

grey weather here for easter, so I made a SKILL toy. It will plot a
waveform to the xterm Tek window. I had always wondered what this xterm
"tek" mode was. I tried to plot families too, but that doesn t work. It
should work OK if you plot a real valued waveform (probably fails on AC
or PSS freq domain 's complex waves).

Don't you have anything better to do? ;-)

I get people amazed at some of the things I've implemented over
the years, but this is definitely even more far out than anything I've ever
done (it beats my sandwich ordering GUI and billing system that I
wrote years ago in NeWS (something similar to Display PostScript), before the
days of the web; at least that was useful...).

Andrew.

 

[fogh]

Andrew Beckett wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:41:19 -0500, fogh <adff@xs4all.nl> wrote:
grey weather here for easter, so I made a SKILL toy. It will plot a
waveform to the xterm Tek window. I had always wondered what this xterm
"tek" mode was. I tried to plot families too, but that doesn t work. It
should work OK if you plot a real valued waveform (probably fails on AC
or PSS freq domain 's complex waves).
Don't you have anything better to do? ;-)
Like visit a museum ? If you know a museum where they expose tektronix

4010 terminals, I may be interested

I don t know why, I have an urge to write useless code these days. Here
is more:

let(
(pi S C cv p)
pi=4*atan(1)
S=sin(pi/3)
C=cos(pi/3)
cv=geGetEditCellView()
p=1.0/cv->DBUPerUU

procedure(Kdraw(cv l_twopoints @optional (depth -1) )
let( (xs ys xe ye x1 y1 x2 y2 x3 y3 x4 y4 cond)
xs=caar(l_twopoints) ys=cadar(l_twopoints)
xe=caadr(l_twopoints) ye=cadadr(l_twopoints)
x1=xs+(xe-xs)/3.0
x3=xs+2*(xe-xs)/3.0
y1=ys+(ye-ys)/3.0
y3=ys+2*(ye-ys)/3.0
x2=(xs+xe)/2.0-C*(ye-ys)/3
y2=(ys+ye)/2.0+S*(xe-xs)/3

if(depth > -1
{ cond=(depth >0 ) }
{
d=sqrt((xe-xs)**2+(ye-ys)**2)
cond=d>p
}
)
if( cond
{
Kdraw(cv list(xs:ys x1:y1) depth-1)
Kdraw(cv list(x1:y1 x2:y2) depth-1)
Kdraw(cv list(x2:y2 x3:y3) depth-1)
Kdraw(cv list(x3:y3 xe:ye) depth-1)
}
{
;dbCreateLine(cv "device" list(xs:ys x1:y1 x2:y2 x3:y3 xe:ye))
dbCreateLine(cv "INDdummy" list(xs:ys x1:y1 x2:y2 x3:y3 xe:ye))
}
);fi
);let
);proc

;; Kdraw cv list(-1000:0 1000:0) 6
;; Kdraw cv list(-1.000:0 1.000:0)
;; Kdraw cv list(-0.3000:0 0.3000:0)
;; Kdraw cv list(-0.1000:0 0.1000:0)
;; { (mapcar 'dbDeleteObject cv->shapes) }
);toplet

 

[Andrew Beckett]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:53:19 -0500, fogh <adff@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I don t know why, I have an urge to write useless code these days. Here
is more:

If you're going to post code, can you please learn to
indent it properly? It makes reading the code much, much, much,
easier.

It's not basic - it's a proper programming language...

Sorry for the criticism - I just want to encourage good practice!

Cheers,

Andrew.

 

[fogh]

Andrew Beckett wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:53:19 -0500, fogh <adff@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I don t know why, I have an urge to write useless code these days. Here
is more:



If you're going to post code, can you please learn to
indent it properly? It makes reading the code much, much, much,
easier.

It's not basic - it's a proper programming language...

Sorry for the criticism - I just want to encourage good practice!

The best way to encourage it would be to release some modules for vim and
nedit, IMO. There probably a way to define a full blow beautifier in a "macro"
that uses SKILL's "pp" and the printinfix

 

[Bernd Fischer]

Hi,

I thought I posted this sometime before, could be a starting point.

http://www.nedit.org/ftp/contrib/highlighting/skill.pats

in combination with
editor = "nedit"
and
BFprettyPrint( 'Kdraw edit t )


By my suggestion would be a kind of SKILL coding standards
and recommendations for end users.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;
;; File Name : prettyPrint.il
;;
;; Function(s) : BFprettyPrint
;;
;; Author : Bernd Fischer
;;
;; Date : Fri, 28 November 2003
;;
;; Version : 1.0
;;
;; Application : Cadence Design Framework II
;;
;; SW Release : 4.4.3 and higher
;;
;; SKILL Lint : PASSed
;;
;; Global Variable(s) : None
;;
;; Synopsis : BFprettyPrint( s_functionName ?edit b_edit )
;;
;; Description : Displays the code of a loaded SKILL function in a
;; viewfile window or in the default editor.
;;
;; Arguments : s_functionName Function name to pretty print,
;; name must start with a tic '.
;; b_edit A boolean value t/nil to define
;; if the function should be printed in
;; a viewfile window for nil or in an
;; editor for t, the default is nil.
;;
;; Return Value : w_windowId/ipc
;;
;; Example : BFprettyPrint( 'BFprettyPrint ?edit t )
;;
;; Modification : -
;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

procedure( BFprettyPrint( s_functionName @key ( edit nil ) )
let( (
t_tmpFile p_outPort
)

t_tmpFile = strcat( "/tmp/" symbolToString( s_functionName ) ".il" )
p_outPort = outfile( t_tmpFile )
funcall( 'pp s_functionName p_outPort )

close( p_outPort )

cond(
( !edit
view( t_tmpFile )
)
( t
edit(
strcat( "/tmp/" symbolToString( s_functionName ) ".il" )
)
)
) ;; close cond

) ;; close let

) ;; close BFprettyPrint


fogh wrote:

Andrew Beckett wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:53:19 -0500, fogh <adff@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I don t know why, I have an urge to write useless code these days.
Here is more:



If you're going to post code, can you please learn to indent it
properly? It makes reading the code much, much, much,
easier.

It's not basic - it's a proper programming language...

Sorry for the criticism - I just want to encourage good practice!


The best way to encourage it would be to release some modules for vim
and nedit, IMO. There probably a way to define a full blow beautifier
in a "macro" that uses SKILL's "pp" and the printinfix

 

[fogh]

Hi Bernd,
I found the skill.pats to be awfully limited. It hilights within
quotes and does not undertand the prefix syntax. And it does not take
care of indentation either. I could not do much in trying to improve it
tho. It seems pretty hard to find quotes '

Do you have an improved version ?

Bernd Fischer > wrote:

Hi,

I thought I posted this sometime before, could be a starting point.

http://www.nedit.org/ftp/contrib/highlighting/skill.pats

in combination with
editor = "nedit"
and
BFprettyPrint( 'Kdraw edit t )


By my suggestion would be a kind of SKILL coding standards
and recommendations for end users.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;;
;; File Name : prettyPrint.il
;;
;; Function(s) : BFprettyPrint
;;
;; Author : Bernd Fischer
;;
;; Date : Fri, 28 November 2003
;;
;; Version : 1.0
;;
;; Application : Cadence Design Framework II
;;
;; SW Release : 4.4.3 and higher
;;
;; SKILL Lint : PASSed
;;
;; Global Variable(s) : None
;;
;; Synopsis : BFprettyPrint( s_functionName ?edit b_edit )
;;
;; Description : Displays the code of a loaded SKILL function in a
;; viewfile window or in the default editor.
;;
;; Arguments : s_functionName Function name to pretty print,
;; name must start with a tic '.
;; b_edit A boolean value t/nil to define
;; if the function should be printed in
;; a viewfile window for nil or in an
;; editor for t, the default is nil.
;;
;; Return Value : w_windowId/ipc
;;
;; Example : BFprettyPrint( 'BFprettyPrint ?edit t )
;;
;; Modification : -
;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;


procedure( BFprettyPrint( s_functionName @key ( edit nil ) )
let( (
t_tmpFile p_outPort
)

t_tmpFile = strcat( "/tmp/" symbolToString( s_functionName ) ".il" )
p_outPort = outfile( t_tmpFile )
funcall( 'pp s_functionName p_outPort )

close( p_outPort )

cond(
( !edit
view( t_tmpFile )
)
( t
edit(
strcat( "/tmp/" symbolToString( s_functionName ) ".il" )
)
)
) ;; close cond

) ;; close let

) ;; close BFprettyPrint


fogh wrote:

Andrew Beckett wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:53:19 -0500, fogh <adff@xs4all.nl> wrote:

I don t know why, I have an urge to write useless code these days.
Here is more:



If you're going to post code, can you please learn to indent it
properly? It makes reading the code much, much, much,
easier.

It's not basic - it's a proper programming language...

Sorry for the criticism - I just want to encourage good practice!



The best way to encourage it would be to release some modules for vim
and nedit, IMO. There probably a way to define a full blow beautifier
in a "macro" that uses SKILL's "pp" and the printinfix

 

[S.Badel]

I also did not like this file.
I did my own, which i like more and works fine. It also includes all the
keywords of SKILL (or, at least, the ones which are in the reference
manual). the suffixed numbers are recognized, and the strings seem to
highlight correctly. Even though i do not code lisp-style, rather
c-style, i tried to make it work for both.

i also redid the script to generate calltips files, which somebody
posted here a while ago and i found not working well.
my version uses more advanced text parsing which allows to avoid many
mistakes that the other was doing. if anyone's interested, i can post it
here as well (its perl).

stéphane

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

nedit.languageModes: SKILL:.il .ils .ocn
..tf::::::".,/\\`'!|#%^&*()-=+{}[]"":<>?~":"SKILL.tips"\n\

SKILL:1:0{\n\
Comment:"/\\*":"\\*/"::Comment::\n\
SKILL Comment:";":"\\n"::Comment::\n\
String:"""":"(?<=[^\\\\])"""::String::\n\
Numeric
Constant:"<((([0-9]+\\.?[0-9]*)|(\\.[0-9]+))(((e|E)(\\+|-)?[0-9]+)|([afpnumkMGTP])))?>":::Numeric
Const::\n\
SpecialWords:"<(nil|t|then|else)>":::Keyword::\n\

Keywords:"\\y(abs|acos|add1|addDefstructClass|alias|alphalessp|alphaNumCmp|and|append|append1|apply|argc|argv|arrayp|arrayref|asin|assoc|assq|assv|atan|atof|atoi|atom|band|bcdp|begin|begin|bitfield1|bitfield|blankstrp|bnand|bnor|bnot|booleanp|bor|boundp|buildString|bxnor|bxor|car|caaaar|caaadr|caadar|caaddr|caar|caddar|cadddr|cadr|cdaaar|cdaadr|cdaar|cdadar|cdaddr|cdadr|cdar|cddaar|cddadr|cddar|cdddar|cddddr|cdddr|cddr|caaar|caadr|cadar|caddr|cdadr|cadaar|cadadr|caddar|cadddr|cdaaar|cdaadr|cdadar|cdaddr|cddaar|cddadr|cdddar|cddddr|case|caseq|cdr|cdsGetInstPath|ceiling|changeWorkingDir|charToInt|clearExitProcs|close|compareTime|compress|concat|cond|cons|constar|copy|copy_\\w*|copyDefstructDeep|cos|cputime|createDir|csh|declare|declareLambda|declareNLambda|declareSQNLambda|define|defmacro|defMathConstants|defprop|defstruct|defstructp|defun|defUserInitProc|defvar|deleteDir|deleteFile|difference|display|do|drain|dtpr|ed|edi|edit|edl|envobj|eq|equal|eqv|err|error|errset|errsetstri
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at|strcmp|stringp|stringToFunction|stringToSymbol|stringToTime|strlen|strncat|strncmp|sub1|subst|substring|sxtd|symbolp|symbolToString|symeval|symstrp|system|tablep|tableToList|tailp|tan|tconc|theEnvironment|times|timeToString|timeToTm|tmToTime|truncate|type|typep|unalias|unless|upperCase|vector|vectorp|vectorToList|vi|vii|vil|warn|when|which|while|write|writeTable|xcons|xdifference|xplus|xquotient|xtimes|zerop|zxtd|defclass|defmethod)>"::lain::\n\
Keyword Color:"\\1":""::Keyword:Keywords:C\n\
Procedure Call:"\\((\\l\\w*)|<(\\l\\w*)\\("::lain::\n\
Procedure Name Color:"\\1\\2":""::Subroutinerocedure Call:C\n\
KeyArg:"(?<=\\y\\?)\\l\\w*":::Text Arg::\n\
QuotedWord:"(?<=\\y')\\l\\w*":::Identifier2::\n\
Identifier:"(<[a-zA-Z]\\w*&gt"::lain::\n\
}

 

[fogh]

Hi Stephane,

I posted the calltips shell script... it s true it was a quick and
blunt one, probably overlooking all peculiarities of the finder files.
You could share with us the improved version. Or better, submit it
along with your improved SKILL patterns to the nedit wiki.

it would really be great if we had a patterns file that can recognise
quotes by ticks ' , macros , etc ... some kind of merge between your
pattern file and the lisp/scheme patterns. The must be gurus at cadence
who can produce that in a blink.

S.Badel wrote:

I also did not like this file.
I did my own, which i like more and works fine. It also includes all the
keywords of SKILL (or, at least, the ones which are in the reference
manual). the suffixed numbers are recognized, and the strings seem to
highlight correctly. Even though i do not code lisp-style, rather
c-style, i tried to make it work for both.

i also redid the script to generate calltips files, which somebody
posted here a while ago and i found not working well.
my version uses more advanced text parsing which allows to avoid many
mistakes that the other was doing. if anyone's interested, i can post it
here as well (its perl).

stéphane

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

nedit.languageModes: SKILL:.il .ils .ocn
.tf::::::".,/\\`'!|#%^&*()-=+{}[]"":<>?~":"SKILL.tips"\n\

SKILL:1:0{\n\
Comment:"/\\*":"\\*/"::Comment::\n\
SKILL Comment:";":"\\n"::Comment::\n\
String:"""":"(?<=[^\\\\])"""::String::\n\
Numeric
Constant:"<((([0-9]+\\.?[0-9]*)|(\\.[0-9]+))(((e|E)(\\+|-)?[0-9]+)|([afpnumkMGTP])))?>":::Numeric
Const::\n\
SpecialWords:"<(nil|t|then|else)>":::Keyword::\n\

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