When dealing with documentation of electronic circuits, it has always been difficult to put down basic timing diagrams into documents. Obviously with newer oscilloscopes and the like, it is often possible to capture events to insert into documents, but many aspects of documentation involve specifications, technical manuals and other documents to show parts of what is happening or is intended to happen, even some reports require diagrams which are not always easy to extract from imported data.
To this end I started off using Xwave a Truetype® font created several years ago by Joseph Palmer and is still available. I found this lacking in some aspects for my purposes, so created a new font. You may find that Xwave is more suitable for you, but I needed to be able to label parts of the signals like data values, have better transitions to and from Tri-state levels, as well as add breaks in the middle of the diagram (like ellipses '...' in quoted text). The final thing breaks means when doing a diagram of events like video processing it becomes possible to create a diagram which can skip sections of a video frame or line easily.
Having created and used it I decided to make this available for other engineers, for free usage and not for profit like a GPL license.
This font is available for use to create documents for technical description. It is not available for resale in whole or part, for commercial usage in a product, magazines, books or other commercial media please contact us first, to discuss your requirements. Basically I still retain ownership of the font.
This is provided on as is basis and should work on all systems supporting Truetype® fonts, as always test it on your system(s) first.
For reasons of keeping track of how popular the font is, I would prefer you point people to this web page.
However you are welcome to distribute the font under the following conditions -
If you are not sure contact us
Install the font into your operating systems fonts directory that supports TrueType® and away you go.
So far this has been known to have worked on Microsoft Windows® and several versions of Linux®,
Dave Kellogg downloaded and tried the font, and created some notes on how to use the font, you can see these notes here.
To download the font for FREE and try it yourself (you have nothing to lose) - click here for Timing Font V1.00 (timingfont100.zip). Check back for updates as if this proves popular I may well redraw the font with more detail later, or even add moire aspects to the font.
Due to the nature of fonts you cannot see the font until it is loaded on your system, however below are some images and links to images of the font and the crib sheet. Both of these are included in the download mentioned above
The image below is a GIF image of a Truetype® font so is not as clean as the font is, for character mappings see the Crib Sheet page
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