Parses (imports) 5Spice data to MATLAB

parse5spice.m

function parse5spice(filename)
% PARSE5SPICE Parses the data in the Report tab of the 5Spice software and
% imports it into MATLAB workspace
% Call the function with an optional filename. If no filename is specified,
% a data.txt in the same directory is used.

% To create data.txt, right click in 5Spice in the Report tab, click Select
% All, and Copy and paste into an empty file. Then, save data as data.txt 
% in the same directory

% The data is automatically exported to workspace, no function output
% assignment is needed.

% Author: Ustun Ozgur
% Date: March 30, 2009
% email: [email protected] for bug reports

% TODO: 

if ~exist('filename')
    filename = 'data.txt';
end
fid = fopen(filename);


values = 0;
variables = 0;
var_names = {};

while 1
    tline = fgetl(fid);
    if ~ischar(tline), break, end
    
    if ~isempty(strfind(tline,'Variables:'))
        variables = variables + 1;
        continue
    end
    
    if ~isempty(strfind(tline,'Values:'))
        variables = 0;
        values = 1;
        continue
    end
    
    if variables == 2
        [tmp1,tmp2,tmp3,tmp4,vals, tmp5] = regexp(tline,'(\s+)\d(\s+)([\w()@#?]+)(\s+)(\w*)(\s)(\w+)');
        if isempty(vals)
            var_names{1} = 'time';
            var_types{1} = 'time';
        else
            varname_this = vals{1}(end);
            var_types{end+1} = vals{1}{end-2};
            var_names{end+1} = varname_this{:};
        end
    end
    
    if values 
        [tmp1,tmp2,tmp3,tmp4,vals, tmp5] = regexp(tline,'(\d*)(\s+)([\w.-+]+)');
        if length(vals)
            ind = vals{1}(1);
            if length(ind{:}) > 0
                indnew = ind;
                var_no = 1;
            else
                var_no = var_no + 1;
            end
            
            val = vals{1}(3);
        end
        evalstr = [var_names{var_no},'(',num2str(str2num(indnew{:})+1), ') = ', val{:},';'];
        eval(evalstr);
    end
end

fclose(fid);

%% Plot the data

disp('The following vectors have been imported')
var_names
% some housekeeping
clear tmp1 tmp2 tmp3 tmp4 tmp5 ans evalstr fid ind indnew  tline val vals values var_no variables varname_this
legendstrc = ''; legendstrv = '';
figure('Name','5Spice Import Data')
for i = 2:length(var_names)
    if var_types{i} == 'current'
        subplot(2,1,2)
        plot(eval(var_names{1}), eval(var_names{i}))
        hold all, grid on, axis tight
        legendstrc = [legendstrc,'''', var_names{i},''','];
        xlabel('Time (s)'), ylabel('Current (Amperes)')

    elseif var_types{i} == 'voltage'
        subplot(2,1,1)
        plot(eval(var_names{1}), eval(var_names{i}))
        hold all, grid on, axis tight
        legendstrv = [legendstrv,'''', var_names{i},''','];
        xlabel('Time (s)'), ylabel('Voltage (Volts)')
    end
end
subplot(2,1,2), eval(['legend(', legendstrc(1:end-1),')']); hold off; title('Current(s) vs Time Plot')
subplot(2,1,1), eval(['legend(', legendstrv(1:end-1),')']); hold off; title('Voltage(s) vs Time Plot')


% Export to calling workspace
for i = 1:length(var_names)
    assignin('base',[var_names{i}], eval(var_names{i}))
end