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 txviewer
 ========
 
-A set of eclipse plugins to show transaction logs created by the SystemC Verification Library
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+A set of eclipse plugins to show transaction logs created by the SystemC 
+Verification Library (SCV). For further description of the SCV please refer to 
+http://www.accellera.org/activities/committees/systemc-verification
+
+The plugins are structured as follows:
+- com.itjw.txviewer.database
+	the interface defining the API to access the database
+- com.itjw.txviewer.database.text
+	an implementation of the API to read the text files generated by the SCV
+	sc_tr_text database
+- com.itjw.txviewer.graph
+	the viewer it self to diplay the transactions and associated views like the
+	outline of the DB and the properties of the transaction
+- com.itjw.txviewer.feature
+	the feature combining the plugins above into a somhow usable form
+
+To build the plugins the Eclipse SDK or PDE use used. In both cases the Groovy
+eclipse plugin (http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin or Market) has to be
+installed.
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