Ask HN: Is there a tool to generate binary protocol figures out of a spec?

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  • wavedrom

    :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine

    I used Wavedrom to generate beautiful SVGs for a similar purpose in the past. Maybe it is useful for you, too:

    https://github.com/wavedrom/wavedrom

  • ob-bitfield

    Generate bitfield diagrams using org-babel

    Does this help with documentation and automatically create diagrams: https://github.com/gsingh93/ob-bitfield ? Was recently posted here on HN. Org format is a powerful format and it can be exported to many other formats using Emacs or maybe Pandoc.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • binwalk

    Firmware Analysis Tool

  • bitfield

    :cake: bit field diagram renderer

    The same guys also have a bitfield renderer https://github.com/wavedrom/bitfield

  • tcpdump

    the TCPdump network dissector

  • Wireshark

    Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.

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