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PickyBiker
- 10th April 2010, 20:43
My little flight controller project has exceeded the complexity that I can keep in my head. I need something to draw timing diagrams that doesn't cost a fortune. I have tried using MS Project, but it's way too tedious for that. I downloaded a couple free trial that were very limited and expensive to purchase.
I need to be able to draw something like this:
clock ---___---___---___---___---___---___---___---___
Signal 1 -------------______----------___----------------
Signal 2 ______------______------______------______----
Etc. etc. etc
Anybody using something that will work for this?
Thanks,
PickyBiker
Charles Linquis
- 10th April 2010, 21:37
Something that is very crude, but works for certain things, and is fast to make and document -
Excel. Use the "border" function to highlight the waveform.
PickyBiker
- 11th April 2010, 00:16
You mean like this?
Thanks!
Charles Linquis
- 11th April 2010, 00:19
Did you have this done already, or did my suggestion really help?
PickyBiker
- 11th April 2010, 00:41
Did you have this done already, or did my suggestion really help?
As soon as I saw your post, I made it in Excel. It was sooo easy. Thanks for the tip :cool:
SynergyFactor
- 11th April 2010, 01:36
Another option I had just run across is using the Xwave truetype font. It is a fixed character size font that allows you create timing diagrams in a word processor (or excel for that matter).
Doug
PickyBiker
- 11th April 2010, 06:11
Thanks for the additional info.
Excel method was just too easy and did what I needed in just a few minutes. All I did was to do a brain dump into the spreadsheet. As soon as I did that, I saw the problem that I was currently chasing. Nothing beats a visual view of what's going on.
Thanks all and don't forget to keep the rubber side down, or if you prefer, the shinny side up.
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