Re: netlist translation via XML/XSLT

Andrew Plumb wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Jonathan David pinged me on this one (re. Re: [Gnucap-devel] Verilog -
> was: Re: Use of M as suffix for Mega, Date: 	Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:11:18
> -0700 (PDT)).  It's probably not a good idea for me to contribute the
> actual code I wrote a while back to do netlist translation, but I'm quite
> willing to start from scratch to create something formally GPL'd.
> 
> The way I originally structured things was as command-line, Java-based
> tool to keep things platform independent.  I coded up a JavaCC-based
> parser to convert Spectre-syntax and SPICE-syntax into an XML-intermediate
> format, then used Java's built-in XSLT parser to transform the resulting
> XML into whatever textual output was needed, including Verilog-AMS.
> 
> For a GPL'd set of tools, I think the approach I'll take is to create a
> simple lex/yacc-based parser to read SPICE format from STDIN and write XML
> to STDOUT.  Then anyone can use xsltproc to create/modify/enhance their
> own output format, or possibly re-use the parser code to write directly to
> a BSD/MySQL database or equivalent for other funky stuff.
> 
> Probable usage examples:
> 
> spice2xml < netlist.cir > netlist.xml
> spice2xml -i netlist.cir -o netlist.xml
> spice2xml -i netlist.cir > netlist.xml
> spice2xml < netlist.cir -o netlist.xml
> cat netlist.cir | spice2xml > netlist.xml
> 
> ...then all you would have to do is:
> 
> xsltproc spice2vams.xsl netlist.xml > netlist.vams

Has anyone looked at gnetman?  I think that was part of the idea there. 
  The author of that tool has quite a bit of experience in netlist 
databases so it may be a useful starting place.  Even if none of the 
code is used, there may be some good ideas there.

-Dan