Waveform viewer

A waveform viewer is a software tool for viewing the signal levels of either a digital or analog circuit design.[1]

Waveform viewers comes in two varieties:

  1. simulation waveform viewers for displaying signal levels of simulated design models, and
  2. in-circuit waveform viewers for displaying signal levels captured in-circuit while debugging or testing hardware boards (see also waveform monitor)
  1. ^ Janick Bergeron, Writing Testbenches: Functional verification of HDL Models, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000