Welcome to GTKWave

GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix, Win32, and Mac OSX which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.

Downloads

• GTKWave LTS 3.3.121: GTK3 source code, legacy GTK1/2 source code
• Flatpak: GTKWave on Flathub
• Documentation: gtkwave.pdf

GTKWave on macOS

An older build of GTKWave LTS can be found on SourceForge: download

This version is not compatible with current versions of macOS. To run GTKWave on newer macOS versions this community provided Homebrew tap can be used: https://github.com/randomplum/homebrew-gtkwave. Additional information about running GTKWave on newer macOS can be found in this GitHub issue.

Development

Any issue found in GTKWave LTS or the development branch on GitHub should be reported on GitHub.

Sourceforge will continue to host the LTS (3.3) version of GTKWave, however future development is moving to a GIT repository on GitHub.
The pre-release sourcetree of the LTS release can be accessed via SVN on SourceForge:

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/gtkwave/code/ gtkwave-code

Screenshots

An experienced professional shown violating most known rules of electrical safety with GTKWave. Please do not attempt this at home.

GTKWave running on macOS.

For a high-performance compiled code Verilog simulator that generates FST files, see here.

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