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Lramseyer / vaporview

Waveform Viewer Extension for VScode
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Support protocol decoding #18

Open hongshui3000 opened 3 months ago

hongshui3000 commented 3 months ago

It would be great if the waveform viewer could support standard protocol decoding (such as i2c, uart, etc.), or if a waveform decoding plug-in could be added. For example, it can support the following decoding library. It will be more convenient for analyzing some standard protocols https://github.com/sigrokproject/libsigrokdecode

Lramseyer commented 3 months ago

Hmmm... This isn't a bad idea. One thing I want to create is an "annotations API" and I'll probably create a larger discussion thread for the topic. It's essentially this and more. What I ultimately want is for people to be able to create custom overlays for signal values and groups of signals. The idea would be that other extension developers could create these or incorporate them into vaporview.

As an example, the first one I am working on is being able to parse .objdump files and link a program counter to an .objdump location to have better visibility into which line of code is being executed.

What I need to work out though, is how I should organize that information and communicate between APIs. I plan on migrating file parsing to the wellen library, so the waveform data structures are subject to change.