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throwaway425933 | 1 year ago

My use case is that I have a graph of flops, latches, buffers, AND, OR, NOT gates and I want to visualize how data is changing/getting corrupted as it goes through each of them.

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viraptor|1 year ago

Ok, so you have nice natural boundaries between systems. If you're dealing with something processor-like, you have really good chokepoints where for example ALU / register / caches connect. The task may be way easier if you deal with one of them at a time. Maybe even abstract anything less interesting (memory/cache?) Would visualising things per-system work better for you, or maybe visualising separate systems getting affected instead of specific nodes?

Having the structure of the device available should also help with the layout - we know you can group the nodes logically into independent boxes instead of trying to auto-layout everything.