List of The Best-known Viewers
| Waveform Viewer | Tool Suite | Developer | Platform | Features | Wave Formats | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VcdView | NA | Ted Rossin | Windows | digital | *.vcd | |
| EZwave | Questa ADMS | Mentor Graphics | Linux, Solaris, Windows | analog, RF, digital and mixed-signal | *.wdb, *.tab, *.cou, *.sti, *.tr%, *.ac%, *.sw%, *.vcd, *.fsdb, *.csv, *.swd, *.dofile, *.dof, *.do, *.tcl | |
| Simvision | NCSim | Cadence Design Systems | Linux, Solaris, Windows | digital, analog, transactions | *.trn, *.shm, *.vcd | |
| vsim | Modelsim | Mentor Graphics | Linux, Solaris, Windows | digital, analog | *.wlf, *.vcd | |
| finewave/PowerView | FineSim | Magma Design Automation | Linux, Solaris | digital, analog | *.fsdb, *.vcd | |
| WaveViewer | works with: VeriLogger | SynaptiCAD | Linux, Solaris, Windows | digital, analog, test equipment, free, high capacity | *.btim, *.csdf, *.tdml, *.vcd, 20+ other formats | |
| Wave VCD | works with: CVer | Interconnect Systems Solutions | Windows | digital, Free, good-quality | *.vcd | |
| WaveProbe | LogicSim | Zeemz | Windows | digital, analog | *.wave | |
| vwave | Undertow | Veritools | Linux, Solaris, Windows | digital, analog, transactions | *.vcd | |
| nWave | Verdi | SpringSoft | Linux, Solaris | digital, analog, transactions, assertions | fsdb, *.vcd | |
| Scansion | NA | Logic Poet | Mac OS | digital, analog, TLM transaction viewer, native Mac application | *.vcd, *.scnx | |
| GTKWave | NA | Tony Bybell | Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Unix | digital, free/open source | *.lxt (Icarus Verilog), *.lxt2 (Icarus Verilog), *.vzt, *.ghw (GHDL), *.vcd, *.evcd *.fst (Icarus Verilog, CVC, CVER_FST), *.fsdb (if fsdbdebug is present in shell search path) | |
| Styx | Hades | Norman Hendrich | Unix | digital, free/open source | ? | |
| Dinotrace | Veripool | Wilson Snyder, Allen Gallotta | Linux, Solaris, Windows | digital, free/open source | *.vcd, *.ascii | |
| Waveform Window | DVE | Synopsys Inc | Linux, Solaris | digital,analog | VCD,eVCD,VPD | |
| Electric | Electric | Static Free Software (staticfreesoft.com) | All (Java) | Integration of schematics and layout with waveform viewer. | tr0, pa0, sw0, ac0, mt0 (Hspice), out (Nanosim), spo (Spice/GNUCap), txt (PSpice), raw (SmartSpice, LTSpice), dump (Verilog). | |
| M1 Waveform Viewer | N/A | ASA Corp (m1ot.com) | Windows | No-cost, acquire live data from scopes and digitizers, analog and digital, view multiple waveforms at once, 22 parameter measurements, simple collaboration | tr0, txt, csv, wfm (Tek), isf (Tek), bin (Agilent) | |
| iWave Waveform Viewer | Aether-Aeolus-iWave | Empyrean Inc. | linux | Analog, RF, digital and mixed-signal, A->D and D->A conversion, analog/mix-signal waveform comparisons, commonly used calculation, commonly used measurement, Eye-diagram, histogram, TCL support session save/load, Aether-iWave cross probable support | Synopsys: HSPICE tr0, sw0, ac0, mt0, hb0, nw0, lis (Binary/ASCII); Novas fsdb files (binary, v4.1); Verilog VCD (ASCII); | 150 px |
| Custom WaveView | Discovery AMS | Synopsys | Linux, Solaris, HP, Windows | Analog, RF, digital and mixed-signal, scripting/batch mode, jitter measurements, DAC toolbox, FFT/iFFT, A->D and D->A conversion, Synopsys/Cadence/Mentor Graphics/JEDAT/Silicon Canvas integration into schematic capture, re-usable measurement templates, HSPICE .measure GUI, digital waveform comparisons, parametric analysis, 3D plots, extremely fast. | Synopsys: HSPICE tr0, sw0, ac0, mt0, hb0, nw0, lis (Binary/ASCII); StarSim wdb, wv, xp (binary); HSIM/NanoSim/XA wdb (binary); HSIM/NanoSim/TimeMill/Powermill out, vector, .mt file (ASCII); Saber AI/PL (binary/ASCII); VCS/Magellan/DVE VPD (binary); WDF format (binary). Cadence: Spectre PSF, WSF (binary/ASCII); runObjFile; PSPICE DAT (binary), Allegro SIM (ASCII); Verilog VCD (ASCII); ModelSim WLF (binary). Mentor Graphics: ELDO/ADMS COU, WDB (binary), AdiT TR0/TB0. SPICE3/SmartSpice raw format (binary/ASCII). Agilent ADS .ds format (binary), TouchStone S-parameters (ASCII). CSDF (Common Simulation Data Format) (ASCII). Novas fsdb files (binary, v4.1). Text file, CSV (comma separated values) format. Other in-house simulator formats: SDIF, MICS, TI-punch (binary). Data from oscilloscopes. | |
| ICD | SMASH | Dolphin Integration | Linux, Windows | analog, digital and mixed-signal | Dolphin: SMASH .tmf, .bwf, .amf, .dmf, .mmf, .nmf; Synopsys: HSpice .sw0, .tr0; Verilog VCD (ASCII, compressed); SPICE3/SmartSpice raw format (binary/ASCII); CSDF (Common Simulation Data Format) (ASCII); Tabulated text file format; | |
| Impulse | Eclipse | toem | Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Unix | digital/analog, free, Eclipse plug-in | *.vcd, *.xml *.tab(AMS tabular trace) |
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