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Python Prductivity Tips

UML Class Diagrams

Pyreverse (part of Pylint):

• natively supports .dot (GraphViz), UMLet and PlantUML outputs
• useful options

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Distributing total into evenly sized integers

A snippet showing how to distribute even integral weights (e.g. percantage).

from random import randrange

def distribute(n,total=100):

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Customizing reStructuredText (rst) for Domain-specific Syntax

• document tree
  • created by a Parser component (i.e. from reStructuredText input)
  • manually constructed
• docutils components

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OpenSTA

OpenSTA is an open-source STA tool by Parallax (hence a.k.a. Parallax STA/Static Timing Analyzer). User Manual is part of the repository.

Build

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Custom Coverpage with LaTeX memoir

Example showing use of custom cover page with memoir class of article class option. There are some few "tricks" to yield the desired effect.

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Transferring Git Commit History

Exporting the complete repo history in a form of patch files (based on https://randombrainworks.com/2017/02/17/git-moving-commits-between-repositories/):

cd path/to/orig/repo
git format-patch --output-directory ../patches $(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD) $(git rev-list HEAD -1)

Create a 2nd repo (here for testing purposes):

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Advanced Tcl Topics

This gist covers some areas that go beyond basic Tcl use. These are useful for anyone embarking on more complex Tcl programming. Some of the topics are fairly simple but very little advertised in Tcl snippets or tutorials.

Boolean Variables

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IP-XACT

Resources

• XML Schemas
  • Official Accellera schemas: http://www.spiritconsortium.org/XMLSchema/
  • Schema copies on github: https://github.com/edaa-org/IPXACT-Schema

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OCV and Timing Derating

Attribution

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Tcl Namespace Ensemble

Tcl ensemble is a dispatcher command. If you oversimplify, you can think of it as an alias. What a dispatcher command does is that it calls another command along with all arguments. Here is an example:

# everbody knows a `file` command, right
file dirname [pwd]