SVG-pinout

This tool is available online.

This is a simple script that takes in the description of pins and produces a diagram in SVG format.

In case you were not aware, SVG is :

• able to be resized losslessly
• machine-readable, with selectable text
• very light

This makes it ideal for diagrams !

Here is an example of produced diagram :

Description format

In summary :

• a list of pins
• #-marked sections identify position (top, bottom, left, right), title, alignment mark, and color

I call them "descriptions" and not "code", because they are meant to be human-readable, close to what you'd write on a piece of paper.

Here is the description for the diagram from earlier (examples/simple.txt) :

# title
Example chip
深圳市电

# bottom
>Status LED (W)
>Status LED (R)

<Clock
# blue
V_SS
V_DD
GND

# top

# no color
<Other sensor
</Sensor
# red
4x <>USB

# left
# mark

You can find out the details with the -d option or by reading this file. A more formal description is available here.

Usage

As noted earlier, a version is available online. To run it on your own computer, you'll just need Python 3. It is a command line application.

The command that produced the earlier diagram was : python.exe .\pinout.py .\examples\simple.txt .\examples\simple.svg

That was Windows, obviously.

On Linux (and other Unix systems), it would be closer to : python3 pinout.py examples/simple.txt examples/simple.svg

Help is available with the -h option : python pinout.py -h