diff --git a/data/zynqmon.yml b/data/zynqmon.yml
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/zynqmon.yml
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+name: zynqmon configuration file
+cm_hw_rev: 1A
+sm_hw_rev: 1A
+sm_fw_rev: 1A
+revision: 1
+config:
+  - name: firefly
+    start: 0
+    count: 25
+    mcu_call: firefly
+    type: int8
+    names:
+      - K01  12 Tx GTH
+      - K01  12 Rx GTH
+      - K02  12 Tx GTH
+      - K02  12 Rx GTH
+      - K03  12 Tx GTH
+      - K03  12 Rx GTH
+      - K04 4 XCVR GTY
+      - K05 4 XCVR GTY
+      - K06 4 XCVR GTY
+      - K07  12 Tx GTY
+      - K07  12 Rx GTY
+      - V01 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V02 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V03 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V04 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V05 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V06 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V07 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V08 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V09 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V10 4 XCVR GTY
+      - V11  12 Tx GTY
+      - V11  12 Rx GTY
+      - V12  12 Tx GTY
+      - V12  12 Rx GTY
+  - name: psmon
+    start: 20
+    count: 20
+    mcu_call: psmon
+    type: fp16
+    single_instance: &psmon_one [TEMP1, TEMP3, VIN, VOUT, IOUT, RESERVED, RESERVED, RESERVED]
+    names: &psmon_all [ *psmon_one, *psmon_one,*psmon_one,*psmon_one,*psmon_one,*psmon_one,*psmon_one,*psmon_one]
+  - name: adcmon
+    start: 40
+    count: 21
+    mcu_call: adcmon
+    type: fp16
+    names:
+      - VCC_12V
+      - VCC_2V5
+      - VCC_M3V3
+      - VCC_3V3
+      - VCC_1V8
+      - VCC_M1V8
+      - V_VCCINT
+      - K_VCCINT
+      - V_MGTY1_AVTT
+      - V_MGTY2_AVTT
+      - K_MGTH_AVTT
+      - K_MGTY_AVTT
+      - V_MGTY1_VCCAUX
+      - V_MGTY2_VCCAUX
+      - K_MGTY_VCCAUX
+      - K_MGTH_VCCAUX
+      - V_MGTY1_AVCC
+      - V_MGTY2_AVCC
+      - K_MGTY_AVCC
+      - K_MGTH_AVCC
+      - TM4C_TEMP
+  - name: uptime
+    start: 192
+    count: 2
+    type: uint16
+    mcu_call: uptime
+    names:
+      - Uptime
+  - name: gitversion
+    start: 194
+    count: 20
+    type: char
+    mcu_call: gitversion
+    names:
+      - Git_Version
diff --git a/src/yamltest.ipynb b/src/yamltest.ipynb
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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import yaml\n",
+    "from pprint import pprint\n",
+    "import dicttoxml\n",
+    "# there is also dict2xml available in pypy (python3)\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "with open('../data/zynqmon.yml') as f:\n",
+    "    data = yaml.load(f, Loader=yaml.FullLoader)\n",
+    "    pprint(data)\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "\n",
+    "xml = dicttoxml.dicttoxml(data, attr_type=False)\n",
+    "print(xml)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# dump xml to file\n",
+    "with open('/tmp/zynqmon.xml', 'wb') as f:\n",
+    "    f.write(xml)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "plmem = dicttoxml.dicttoxml(data['config'], attr_type=False)\n",
+    "print(plmem)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "interpreter": {
+   "hash": "d1bcf2015140efba1309a3b878c8a09b28a5da1fac13dcbb304588e5a25844fe"
+  },
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3.8.12 64-bit ('base': conda)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.8.12"
+  },
+  "orig_nbformat": 4
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 2
+}