WaveCrux
Ferrite Engineering LLC Developer Tools iPhoneiPadiPod touch
WaveCrux is a free Developer Tools app for iPhone and iPad by Ferrite Engineering LLC. Requires iOS 16.0. Updated October 19, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 38 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.1.0
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About WaveCrux
WaveCrux is a modern, high-performance waveform viewer for digital design and verification engineers. Open VCD, FST, GHW, LXT and LXT2 simulation traces directly on your iPhone or iPad — review a regression during a meeting, triage a CI failure from anywhere, or walk through a trace without opening your laptop. GET STARTED IMMEDIATELY Tap "Open Sample Waveform" on the welcome screen to explore a bundled trace with five decoded protocol buses — no files of your own needed. WAVEFORM VIEWING • Native Rust parsing engine — large multi-million-event traces open fast • VCD, FST, GHW, LXT and LXT2 file formats • Smooth pinch-to-zoom and pan, tuned for touch • Full design hierarchy browser with search and filtering • Cursors, markers, and time measurements • Value formats: hex, decimal (signed and unsigned), binary, octal, ASCII, and enum translation • Fixed-point and floating-point buses drawn as analog curves PROTOCOL DECODERS • Serial: UART, SPI, I2C • Buses: AXI4-Lite, APB, AHB-Lite, Wishbone • RISC-V instruction decode • Decoded transactions overlay directly on the waveform ANNOTATE AND SHARE • Add a callout, arrow or shaded band to a signal at a moment in time; it stays anchored as you pan and zoom • Notes record the value the signal had when you wrote them, and flag themselves when a re-run changes it • Share Annotated Waveform sends your notes and the trace they refer to as one small file, openable on desktop or in a browser GTKWAVE FRIENDLY • Import GTKWave .gtkw session files — signal lists, groups, colors, and formats come across • Reads GTKWave translate filter files BUILT FOR MOBILE • Open waveform files straight from Mail, Slack, AirDrop, or the Files app • Layout adapts from iPhone to iPad multi-pane • Sessions preserve your signal selections, formats, cursors, and zoom PRIVACY • No account, no sign-in, no ads • Your waveform files never leave your device • Anonymous usage counts help decide what to build next. You are asked on first launch, the switch is in Settings → Privacy, and the complete list of what is counted is at edacrux.app/telemetry — never file names, signal names, or anything that identifies you Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. WaveCrux is also available for macOS, Windows, and Linux — visit wavecrux.app to learn more.
What’s new
Version 1.1.0 · Updated October 19, 2026
WaveCrux 1.1. Clear a crowded view in one step. Clear Canvas, in the overflow menu and the command palette, takes every signal off the tab and keeps your file, cursors, markers and zoom. A group's menu adds Remove Group and Signals, and a scope in the signal tree adds Remove All in Scope. Every removal, including a single one, can be undone. The transaction table shows every transaction a decoder finds. It used to stop at 2,000; rows are now drawn as you scroll. A command palette button. Phones and tablets get a toolbar button for the command palette, so it no longer needs a hardware keyboard. GTKWave save files import more faithfully: translate filters, zoom, scroll position and open scopes now come across. Solarized Dark, High Contrast Dark, Oscilloscope and OLED XR paint their own cursor, marker and ruler colors. Fixes: the AXI4-Lite decoder handles several outstanding writes and reads, and lists those still unanswered at the end of the trace; a session that names a decoder this build cannot load shows it instead of hiding it. Privacy: with usage statistics off, the app now keeps no installation ID, and the first-launch default reads your device's region setting as well as its language.
App privacy
The developer, Ferrite Engineering LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Analytics
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