Overview

This site is dedicated to the development of Open Standards for the Chip Diagnostic Industry. 
There are a few "Big Players" in the testing and diagnostic industries but few standards for interoperability.
Standards such as STIL are great, but they take too long to get through committee and come out with holes that make true interoperability possible.
What is needed is a grass root effort supported by both ISV and consumers to define file formats and APIs that promote interoperability among tools.
If you want to contribute to this effort or have comments, please email them to :opendiagnostics@gmail.com

File Formats

The goal for the file formats are to be vendor agnostic, simple and easy to parse.  To make the easy to parse, we want to use either comma separated value (CSV) file or XML files.  We lean towards XML files, but understand that some simple information is just easier to put in a CSV file.
When defining an XML file, we use XML schema files (.xsd files)  for the definition.  Schema files tightly define the contents of an XML file and have broad tool support to generate parsers and writers for the defined XML files.