https://github.com/gtkwave/gtkwave
GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.
https://github.com/gtkwave/gtkwave
fst ghw vcd viewer waveform
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GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gtkwave/gtkwave
- Owner: gtkwave
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2019-11-16T00:12:08.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-20T02:36:39.000Z (17 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-20T03:28:03.487Z (17 days ago)
- Topics: fst, ghw, vcd, viewer, waveform
- Language: C
- Homepage: https://gtkwave.github.io/gtkwave/
- Size: 10.6 MB
- Stars: 754
- Watchers: 20
- Forks: 126
- Open Issues: 159
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: COPYING
- Authors: AUTHORS
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README
# GTKWave
GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.
## Building GTKWave from source
### Installing dependencies
Debian, Ubuntu:
```sh
apt install build-essential meson gperf flex desktop-file-utils libgtk-3-dev \
libbz2-dev libjudy-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
```
Fedora:
```sh
dnf install meson gperf flex glib2-devel gcc gcc-c++ gtk3-devel \
gobject-introspection-devel desktop-file-utils tcl
```
macOS:
```sh
brew install desktop-file-utils shared-mime-info \
gobject-introspection gtk-mac-integration \
meson ninja pkg-config gtk+3 gtk4
```
### Building GTKWave
```sh
git clone "https://github.com/gtkwave/gtkwave.git"
cd gtkwave
meson setup build && cd build && meson install
```
### Running GTKWave
```sh
gtkwave [path to a .vcd, .fst, .ghw dump file or a .gtkw savefile]
```
For more information about available command line parameters refer to the built in-help (`gtkwave --help`) or the [`gtkwave` man page](https://gtkwave.github.io/gtkwave/man/gtkwave.1.html).