Debra Klopfenstein, ASIC Engineer, SGI

Communicating complicated system scenarios can be difficult using words alone. Diagrams of scenarios can give engineers a quick and thorough understanding of system events. But hand-drawn diagrams are time-consuming to create and may be incomplete or contain erroneous information. This paper discusses how to create a short perl script that reads a simulation log file and automatically creates an accurate, informative diagram in seconds.