2025-01-06 A Preliminary Review

I've been looking at some of the existing schematic viewers like XJtag and Altium Designer Viewer and here's what I'm noticing:

• For altium, the exports of schematics is only via PDFs. A nice thing about this project is that we can focus on merely synthesizable sv, v files (RTL) so that we can focus on efficiency. The idea is that it should be fast to load these diagrams, and the viewers can be desigened in an open source manner (someone uses the synthesis command to generate the diagram, then can view it like any old netlist).
• The other issue is being closed source, since things like vivado's circuit design visualizer are also behind closed walls (albeit free) but have performance issues as a result).

This GH Issue talks about the hurdles of some of the requests people have on this.