Hi Guys,

My original plan was to make the TimingAnalyzer a commercial product
that would sell for about $200 but would have most all the features of
the programs that cost $1000 and more.  It's just me alone doing the
development and its going very slow cause I work full time and only
have some evenings and weekends to work on it.

I'm hoping that happens some day but it will not be anytime soon.  I
work full time as a design engineer and continue the development of
the program because I find it very useful to document interface timing
diagrams from simulations and visualize new logic designs with timing
diagrams that are built quickly using the logic simulation functions.
Still a lot to do with logic simulations.

I'm looking at retiring in 10 years or so and then I might consider
making it a commercial product.  In the mean time, the plans are to
continue the development and add new features and continue to make it
easier to use. I'm not happy with the Java GUI and plan to switch to a
compiled language that supports cross-platform GUIs and Python for
scripting. Others have shown interest in helping with the development
if it was open source project so I'm thinking about that as well,  but
I need to feel 100% sure that is right thing to do.  Either way,  I
will always support the program and the user community and continue to
add features requested by the users.

I hope this clears the air a little.  If you have any questions,
please just ask.
Dan Fabrizio




On Dec 18 2009, 12:34=A0pm, chris <chris.fel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tobasco,
> At least tell me you have the intelligence to tell the difference
> betweengtkwave(which I wholeheartedly support) and
> timing-diagrams.com (whose intention is still unclear till today).
> Zheng
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:43:06 -0500 "Tobasco"
>
> - Hide quoted text -
>
> <nothankstoem...@nothanks.com.cx.ch> wrote:
> > Please ignore anyone telling you not to mention your timing diagram
> > software. It looks useful and I've played around with it a bit. You
> > give it away for free. No one "runs" usenet so use it as you will as
> > long as you are respectful. I guarantee you that no one cares if you
> > piss off Zheng. It's free software as per your website; not everyone
> > wants to release their source code. As much as I love open source
> > software it isn't the end all be all philosophy on like.
>
> I guess I don't see the big deal? =A0What does it matter what the
> intentions of timing_analyzer are? =A0I guess if you become dependent on
> the software and the project dies, it could be frustrating? =A0But in
> either case small plugs for the software should be tolerable (not much
> different than having a company signature at the end of each post).
> Timing analyzer is still free software and others have found benefit
> and use out of the project. =A0I am not bothered by the posts for Timing
> analyzer.
>
> chris

Hi everyone,
The latest version of GTKWave (3.3.7)
windows binary is available here: http://www.dspia.com/gtkwave.html
You need to grab TCL-TK libraries in addition to the GTK libraries in
two separate archives if you don't have them.
If you have previously installed 3.3.0, only the exe file is
necessary.
-- 
Muzaffer Kal

DSPIA INC.
ASIC/FPGA Design Services

http://www.dspia.com

Hi everyone,
The latest version of GTKWave (3.3.20) windows binary is available
here: http://www.dspia.com/gtkwave.html
All necessary libraries are in the all_libs.tar.gz file. Unzipping
them to the directory where gtkwave.exe resides creates the directory
structure necessary to get around the non-start issue several people
have observed. The bin directory (if not also the gtkwave exe
directory) should be added to the path.

If you have working version of 3.3.x, only the exe file is
necessary.
-- 
Muzaffer Kal

DSPIA INC.
ASIC/FPGA Design Services

http://www.dspia.com