RouteWave Documentation

Quick start, keyboard reference, console commands, and download verification.

Quick Start

# Download (Linux AppImage)

wget https://github.com/djmazure/routewave/releases/latest/download/RouteWave-x86_64.AppImage

chmod +x RouteWave-x86_64.AppImage

# Open a waveform file

./RouteWave-x86_64.AppImage my_design.vcd

# Or use with RouteRTL

rr waves sim/out/test_uart.vcd

VCD

IEEE 1364 Value Change Dump

Any simulator

FST

Fast Signal Trace

GTKWave-compatible

GHW

GHDL Waveform

GHDL native via libghw

ILA CSV

Vivado/Quartus ILA Export

Hardware analyzers

ltrace

RouteWave Native JSON

Human-readable sessions

Command	Description
`show <signal>`	Add signal to canvas
`hide <signal>`	Remove signal from canvas
`zoom <start> <end>`	Set viewport time range
`measure <signal>`	Measure period/frequency/duty
`handshake bind <valid> <ready>`	Bind handshake analyzer
`translate <ch> uart_8n1`	Attach UART decoder
`translate <sda> <scl> i2c`	Attach I2C decoder (two-channel merge)
`makebus <name>`	Create virtual bus from selected signals
`virtual <name> = <expr>`	Create virtual signal from expression
`find <channel> <hex_value>`	Search bus for value
`findnext / findprev`	Navigate search results
`bookmark [name]`	Save viewport position
`goto <name\|time>`	Jump to bookmark or timestamp
`record start <file> / stop`	Record and replay command macros
`exec <script.ltr>`	Execute script file
`export <file.csv\|file.vcd>`	Export data (format by extension)
`compact [channel]`	Compress signal data in memory
`memstat`	Show per-channel memory usage
`help`	Show all available commands

# Verify SHA256 checksum

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt

# Verify GPG signature

gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.txt.sig SHA256SUMS.txt